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THfc Standard Guide 

ST. AUGUSTINE - EAST COAST 
OF FLORIDA - AND NASSAU 




ST. AUGUSTINE, FLORIDA 

FOSTER & REYNOLDS 
Standard Guidh Information Bureau 

Copyright. 1898, by C. V>. Reynolds 



2806 




IN A NASSAl' SroNCK YARD. 



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LAKK WOKIII — I RUM i'ALM l;l:.ACU. 



CONTENTS. 



S I-. ArciSTiNK, 

'I'm Criv CiAii WAN, 

TuK Tlaza am> Si a-Wall, 

TiiK Ponce df. Lkon, 

l''(iK 1' Marion, 

Sr. 1*'rANCIS l^ARRAt.KS, 

Sr. An ASTASIA Island, 

OuN and Rod, 

TnK P^AST Coast Cotntrv, 

Nassau, 



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IT.LrSTRATIOXS. 



Morning aitkr a Storm, 

Light and Shade, 

St. Francis Street, - 

A S'lUDY IN St. Au(;ustine, 

The Gardens with their Pai.ms, 

The Overhancinc. Balconies. 

Transformed St. George Street, 

The New St. Augustine, 

The Memorial Chruch, 

A Bit of Old Augustine, 

Morning on the Plaza, 

The Old Cathedral, 

Linc;er as Cherisheh Landmarks, 

The Ponce de Leon, 

From the Gateway oe the Court 

Ceiling Fresco, - 

Ceiling Fresco, 

The Alcazar, 

Cool, Inviting Vistas, 

The Cordova, 

CoQuiNA Bastions 



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PAGE 

Plan of Fort Marion, - - - - - =- = -42 

To-Day Touching Hands with Vesierdav, -.- = .. 43 

Chapel Entrance and Casemates, - - ~ - - - 44 

A MoNUMENi' of Three Centuries, ...... 45 

Osceola and Coacoochee, - - - = - - - 46 

Menendez, ----- ^ - • - 48 

San Juan de Pinos, - - - - - - - -48 

The Siege by Francis Drake, ...... 4^ 

In the Old Days, - - - - - - - - 49 

The Siege by Oglethorpe, - - ~ - - - - 50 

General Marion, - - - - - •■ - - 51 

British St. Augustine, ----- - - 53 

The Dade Memorial, - - - - - ■ - - 53 

French at the River of Dolphins, - - - - . - 55 

Ruins of the Matanzas Fort, - - - ■• - - 57 

St. George Street near the Plaza, ----- ^ 59 

Indian Mode of Hunting Alligators, - - - - - - 61 

Knows Where to go Fishin', ----.--62 

In Seminole Land, - - - - - - - -64 

Cocoanut at Palm Beach, --_...- 65 

One of the Ormond Drives, - - - - - - - 66 

The Tally-Ho on Ormond Beach, ^ . . . . 6-j 

CoQuiNA Shell-Stone, - - - - - - - -67 

Ormond Beach in April, --. = ,-.. 68 

The Walk at Rockledge, - = = - - - C-g 

A Rockledge Vista, - - - - = - - - 70 

The Halifax River Shore, - - ~ - - - - 71 

Sentinel Palmettoes, ..-.-.-■72 

A Palm Beach Outlook, - - - -- - - - 73 

The Royal Poinciana, -..--..74 

Architecture of Turkey Creek, - - - - - - 75 

A Seminole of To-Day, - ,-..-- 76 

The East Coast Country, - - - - - - - 77 

A Memory of the East Coast Land, - - - - - - ' 80 

*** For permission to use copyrighted photographs, we .are indebted to Havens, of Jacksonville; the Artotype Pub. 
Co., of New York; and the W. H. Jackson Photo and Pub. Co., of Denver. 



ST. AUGUST! NR 




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ORTIFICATION and defense were the first thought of 
the Spanish soldiers who founded St. Augustine; and 
they were careful to choose a site which should be a 
stronghold. The situation of the town was admirably 
fitted for such a purpose. St. Augustine is built on a 
narrow strip of land running north and south. In 
front on the east is tlie Mantanzas River, in the rear on 
the west flows the St. Sebastian. 
Distances in St. Augustine are not great. The chief points of interest are com- 
prised within an area of three-quarters of a mile in length; and the tourist who is 
provided with the Standard Guidk will need no other aid in finding his way. 

A sea-wall e.xtends along the water front from Fort Marion on the north to the 
United States barracks on the south. In the center of the town is an open scpiare or 
park, called the Plaza. 

The principal streets run north and south; the cross streets at right angles, east 
and west. The main thoroughfare, St. George street, runs through the center of the 
town to the City Gate; from that point it is known as the Shell Road, extending north 
beyond the San Marco Hotel. Treasury street, crossing St. George one block north 
of the Plaza, narrows at the east end to an alley, across which two persons may clasp 
hands. St. Francis street, at the southern extremity of St. George, was long famous 
for its ancient date palm, which was killed by the freeze of 1S85. The .Mameda 
extends west from the Plaza to the St. Sebastian River. 



Some of the street names are suggestive of incidents in the town's romantic history. St. Francis 
commemorates the labors and self-sacrifice of the Franciscan mission fathers, whose monastic institu- 
tion was on the site where the barracks now stand. Cuna and St. Hypolita were given in the Spanish 
supremacy. St. George street was so called in honor of England's patron saint, and Charlotte was the 
name of the queen of King George III. Old St. Augustine states that the name Treasury is from 
the Spanish term, which signified "the street where the treasurer lives." The treasure (/. f. funds for 
the soldiers' pay, etc.) was kept closely guarded in the fort. 



The narrow little streets, with their foreign names and foreign faces, their 
overhanging balconies and high garden walls, through whose open door one caught 



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a glimpse of orange and fig and waving banana, were once among the quaint cna;- 
acteristics which made this old Florida town charming and peculiar among all Ameri- 
can cities. But the picturesque streets, of which tourists delighted to write, have 
ahnoot ceased to be a pleasing feature of St. Augustine. Some of them have been 
widened; and others, shorn of their quaintness, are ill adapted to the swelling traffic 




A STUDY OF LIGHT AND SHADE. 
Charlotte Street. 



of the "rush season." Reckless drivers crowd the pedestrian to the wall, and well 
may he sigh for the good old times when, tradition says, no wheeled vehicle was 
allowed in St. Augustine. The Standard Guide, we are sure, echoes the sentiment 
of scores of intelligent visitors, when it expresses regret that more adequate appreci- 
ation and foresight should not have prompted to the better preservation of these 
quaint and characteristic features of St. Augustine. 

The aspect of the town has been modified in other respects. The style of archie 
tecture is undergoing a change; one by one the overhanging balconies are disappear^ 
ing from the streets; high stone walls are replaced by picket fences and wire netting; 



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A STUDY IN ST. AUGUSTINE. 
Sketch from paintings by Louis C. Tiffany. 

moss-roofed houses have given way to smart shops; lattice gates are displaced by 
show windows and displays of bargains in ready-made clothing. 

Few of the old dwellings are remarkable for antiquity or ]')eculiarity of construc- 
tion; their picturesque side is usually seen from the street. In former times most of 
the houses were of coquina, a natural shellstone quarried from Anastasia Island, but 
this has been superseded by wood and artificial concrete. 

To tear down and demolish has been the rule with foe and friend alike. Indian, Sea-King, Bou- 
canier, British invader — each in turn has scourged the town; and after the passing of each, it has risen 
again. If we may credit the testimony of visitors here, over St. Augustine has always hung an air of 
desolation and decay. After the successive changes of rulers, the new has always been built from the 
old. To use the coquina blocks from a dilapidated structure was less laborious than to hew out new 
material from the Anastasia quarries. In this manner were destroyed the coquina batteries, that in 
old times defended the southern line of the town. The stone from one of them was employed in build- 




"riiK r..4jir)F.Ns with tuf.ir pai.ms." 



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ing the Franciscan convent, and thence it went into the foundation of tlie barracks, which rose on the 
convent site. Another lot of coquina passed through a like cycle of usefulness, from outskirt battery 
into parish church, and from parish church to the repair of the city gate. So universal, indeed, has 
been this process of tearing down the old to construct the new, that there are few edifices here to-day, 
concerning whose antiquity we have satisfactory evidence. Boston worships in churches more ancient 
than the cathedral; New Orleans markets are older than the disused one on the plaza; Salem wharves 
antedate the sea-wall; on the banks of the Connecticut, the Hudson and the Potomac stand dwellings 
more venerable than any here on the Matanzas. — Old St. Augustine. 

The people met in the streets are not the picturesque beings described in the 
books of travel written fifty years ago. Most tourists expect to find here a Spanish 

population. They have a 
notion — zealously fostered by 
the stereotyped "Ancient 
City" letter in Northern 
newspapers — that inasmuch 
as St. Augustine was founded 
by the Spaniards there must 
be Spaniards here now. As 
a matter of fact, the swarthy 
Spaniard stalks through the 
streets no longer, save in the 
imagination of feminine cor- 
respondents, who send gush- 
ing screeds to their papers 
The Spanish residents emi- 
grated when Florida was 
ceded to the United States 
seventy- five years ago. 

A portion of the native 
population, distinguished by 
dark eyes and dark complex- 
ions, is composed of the Mi- 
norcans, but they are now an 
inconspicuous pnrt of the 
winter throngs. They have 
given place to the multitudes 
from abroad; as their ancient 
coquina houses are making 
way for modern hotels and winter residences. In 1769, during the P.ritish occupa- 
tion, a colony of Minorcans and Majorcans were brought from the Balearic Islands, 
in the Mediterranean Sea, to New Smyrna, on the Indian River, south of St. Augustine. 
Deceived by Turnbull, the proprietor of the plantation, and subjected to gross 
privation and cruelty, they at length appealed to the authorities of St. Augustine, 
were promised protection, deserted from New Smyrna in a body, came to St. 
Augustine, were defended against the claims of Turnbull, received an allotment of 
land in the town, built palmetto-thatched cottages, and remained here after the 
English emigrated. 




"the overuaxging balconies. 
St. George Street. 



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The Fort, the gateway and tlie old liouses are built of coquina (Spanish, signify- 
ing shellfisli), a native rock found on Anastasia Island. It is coin]-)osed of shells and 
shell fragments of great variety of form, color and size. Ages ago these were washed 
up in enormous quantities by the waves, just as masses of similar material are left 



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Skozving the Ho'el Mag'nolia. 



now on the beach, where one may walk for miles through the loose fragments which, 
under favorable conditions, would in time form coquina stone. Cut off from the sea, 
these deposits are in lime partially dissolved by rain water and cemented together. 

The new material is a composition of sand, Portland cement and shells. A wall 
is built 1)\- moulding successive layers of concrete; as each layer hardens a new one is 
poured in on top of it. The wall is thus cast instead of being built; when completed 
it is one stone; indeed, the entire wall construction of a concrete building is one solid 
mass throughout — a monolith, with neither joint nor seam. The plastic material 



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lends itself most admirably to architectural and decorative purposes, and possesses 
the very important qualities of durability and immunity from destruction by fire. It 
was first employed in the Villa Zorayda, worthy of note because of the architectural 
design and the elaborate manner in which the owner-architect has successfully de- 
veloped his plan of an oriental building as appropriate to the latitude of Florida. 




THE NEW ST. AUGUSTINE. 



The architecture throughout is Moorish, after sketches and photographs in Spain, 
Tangier and Algiers. Above the front entrance is the inscription in Arabic letters: 
Wa la ghalih ilia lla — " There is no conqueror but God" — the motto which is every- 
where reproduced on the escutcheons and in the tracery of the Alhambra. 

The Memorial Presbyterian church, erected in 1889 by Mr. H. M. Flagler, is an 
elaborate structure, in the style of the Venetian Renaissance, and in wealth of ex- 
terior decoration surpasses any other building in St. Augustine. 

Other changes have been made in ecclesiastical architecture, most noteworthy 
with respect to the Roman Catholic cathedral on the Plaza. Destroyed by fire in 
1887, it has been rebuilt, enlarged and beautified. The original fafade has been 
retained and blends somewhat inharmoniously with the spire rising above it. 
There is in this something typical of that incongruity which characterizes the town> 




rHF. MEMORIAL CIUKCH. 



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a combination of the ancient and the modern, the quaint and venerable and the 
painfully new. 

Because of the pretty fable that the name Florida was given to a "Land of 
Flowers," and because the tropical features of the northern portion of the State have 
been grossly exaggerated, most persons who come to Florida in winter are apt to be 
disappointed when they find the floral display less profuse and brilliant than they 
anticipated. They forget that like the North, the South also has its seasons, which 
are marked in the same manner if in less degree. Spring is the time of bursting 
buds and blossoms, summer of luxuriant and maturing vegetation, autumn of the 
falling leaf; while in winter much of 
the Florida verdure is sere and 
brown, the deciduous trees are bare 
of leaves, and beneath the sombre 
drapings of ''Spanish moss," as in the 
North beneath the sheet of snow, the 
earth rests and recuperates. There 
is yet abundance of foliage and color. 
Lemon, orange and lime, oleander, 
olive and magnolia, date palm, pal- 
metto and bay are evergieen; rose 
gardens are in perennial bloom. The 
orange blossoms in the last of Feb- 
ruary or the first of March; the fruit 
ripens from November 15 to Decem- 
ber I, and will hang on the trees until 
the middle of the following May. 

In recent years the town has taken 
on a new appearance and character 
From a queerly built old city, whose 
foreign air picpied the curiosity of 
the chance visitor, and hinted at the 
vicissitudes of its "three centuries of 
battle and change," St. Augur.tine 
has become a fashionable winter resort, whose great hotels dominate the aspect of 
the surroundings, and in their luxury and magnificence have no equals in the 
world; it is the winter Newport, whose visitors are numbered by tens of thousands, 
whose private residences are distinguished for elegance and comfort. Year by 
year the city grows more beautiful, and with each innovation and transformation 
it adds anew to its attractiveness. The old has been supplanted by the new, vet 
St. Augustine preserves a distinctive character all its own, and there is now more 
than ever before about the old city an indefinable charm, which leads one's thoughts 
back to it again, and gladdens tlie face that is once more turned toward Florida 
and St. Augustine. 

Can life anywhere else be like life in the Ancient City? Upon the first day thereof we are ready to 
swear you, Nay. Upon the one hundreil and lifty-hrst I tliink we say, Amen. — Elizahctli Stuart P/idps. 




A BIT OF OLD AUGUSTINE. 




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THE CITY GATEWAY. 

J{ the head cf St. George Street. 

ANDMARKS are rapidly disappearing from St. Augustine, but the 

pillars of the ancient city gateway still remain as ncitable nionu- 

^ife^'vTi^^^.A ments of the past, ^^'hen first seen these towers are quite likely 

""■•y^f-^M^i^h^c^ ^^ t)e a disapiiointment, for their proportions are not so grand as 

'•■'''''''"''?-'■■ - they are often pictured. Moreover the gate has been outgrown 

and dwarfed; and it no longer possesses the advantage of a commanding position on 

the ttiwn's outskirts. Dwellings crowd close upon it, overtopping the towers; a huge 

hotel looms up beyond. Irreverence might even dub the gateway ridiculous. 

But it was not always so. Inconsequential as may be these towers now, there 
was a time when they stood out bravely enough, and when in their security St. 
Augustine rejoiced. In those days they looked out upon an illimitable wilderness; 
the belated traveler hurried on to their shelter; and the town slept securely when 
the Barrier Gate was fast shut against the midnight approach of a foe from without. 
Stoutly their walls gave their strength when it was needed, and defended for the 
King of Spain his garrison town in Florida. They have witnessed many a narrow 
escape and many a gallant rescue. More than once have they trembled with the 
shock of assault, and more than oiue driven back the foe repulsed. To-day, dis- 
mantled and useless, out of keeping with the customs of the day and the spirit of the 
age, long since left behind by the outstretching town, the picturesque old ruins linger 
as cherished landmarks. Here we are on historic ground. 

I'he gateway is the only conspicuous relic of the elaborate system of fortifica- 
tions which once defended St. Augustine. The town being on a narrow peninsula 
running south, an enemy could approach by land only from the north. Across this 
northern boundary, east and west, from water to water, ran lines of fortification, 
which effectually barred approach. From the Fort a deep ditch ran across to the 
St. Sebastian; and was defended by a high parapet, with redoubts and batteries. The 
ditch was flooded at high tide. Entrance to the town was by a drawbridge across 
the moat antl through the gate. Earthworks extended along the St. Sebastian River 
in the rear (west) of the town, and around to the Matanzas again on the south. The 
gate was closed at night. Guards were stationed in the sentry boxes. Just within 
the gate was a guard house, with a detachment of troops. 



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" LINC.ER AS CHERISHED I.AN'I iMARKS." 



"When the sunset gun was fired, the bridge was raised, the gate was barred, 
and the guards took their station. Through the hours of the night — from fort to 
gate, from gate west along the parapet to redoubt Tolomato, from Tolomato to 
redoubt Centro, from Centro to redoubt Cubo on the San Sabastian; thence along 
the river to the farthest battery, and east to the extreme point of the peninsula; then 
north, past powder-house and barracks, on to the plaza, and so back to the watch towers 
of the fort again — went the challenge, Ceufiuela alcrta ! and came the answer, Alerta 
estd! When once the gate was closed, the belated wayfarer, be he citizen or stranger, 
must make the best of it without the town until morning." Only on extraordinary 
occasions were the bolts thrown back at night, as when some messenger might come 
with urgent dispatches for the Governor. — Old St. Aitgi/sti/ie. 



IHE PLAZA AND SEA-WALL„ 




PLEASING bit of greensward in the center of the town is the 
Plaza. It is a public park of shrubbery and shade trees, with 
monuments and fountains, an antiquated market place invit- 
ing one to loiter, antl an outlook to the east over the bay 
and Anastasia Island to the sails of ships at sea. All this is 
the more charming to those who remember the Plaza — not 
so many years ago — when it was an unshaded, unkempt, un- 
inviting waste of scanty turf and blowing sand. Long before 
those days it had been beautiful with orange trees, whose 
wonderful size and fruitfulness are yet among the town's tradi- 
tions. The square is diminutive, but it is unconsciously mag- 
nified because of the contrast to the narrow streets whence one emerges upon its 
stretch of greensward. 

The open structure on the east end of the Plaza is commonly pointed out as the 
"old slave pen," or "slave market," and it is sometimes alleged to have been of 
Spanish origin. It never was used as a "slave pen," nor as a "slave market," nor 
had the Spaniards anything to do with it, for they had left the country twenty years 
before it was built. 'l"he market (burned in 1887 and restored) was built in 1840; it 
was intended for a very prosaic and commonplace use, the sale of meat and other 
food supplies, and it was devoted to that use. A print of the town in 1848 shows the 
market thronged with men and women with baskets; and it is hardly worth while to 
point out that in those days purchasers did not carry home human chattels in baskets. 
The requirements of St. Augustine long since outgrew this primitive style of mart, 
and the Plaza market has become a lounging place where idlers bask in the sun and 
exchange gossip. 

It was not until the influx of curiosity seeking tourists, after the Civil War that 
any one thought of dubbing the Plaza market a "slave pen" or "slave market." 
The ingenious photographer who labeled his views of the old meat market "slave 
pen " sold so many of them to sensation hungry strangers that he has since retired 
with a competence; and when he sets up a crest he will no doubt take for his arms a 
negro in chains, after the fashion of old John Hawkins, father of the British slave 



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trade. The "slave market," "Huguenot Cemetery" and "oldest house" yarns have 
been told so often to credulous visitors that there are now some residents of St. 
Augustine who actually ahnost believe the stories themselves. 

The park takes its name of Plaza de la Constitucion from the monument erected 
here by the Spaniards in 1813. This is a pyramid of coquina, stuccoed and white- 
washed, rising from a stone pedestal, and surmounted by a cannon ball. The exist- 




MORNINr, ON THE PLAZA. 
Sho7vi>ig Spanish Monuvient and Old ^athedral. 



ence of such a memorial here in the United States is incongruous, for it commemorates 
a minor event of European history, when in 181 2 the Spanish Cortes completed the 
formation of a new and liberal constitution. 

The Spanish inscription on the monument sets forth, as translated: ''Plaza of the Constitution, 
promulgated in the city of St. Augustine, in East Florida, on the 17th day of October, in the year 1812; 
the Brigadier Don Sebastian Kindalem, Knight of the Order of vSantiago, being Governor. For eternal 
remembrance the Constitutional City Council erected this monument, under the superintendence of Don 
Fernando de la Maza Arredondo, the young municipal officer, oldest member of the corporation, and 
Don Francisco Robira, Attorney and Recorder. In the year 181 3." 

A second monument in the Plaza bears the inscriptions: "Our Dead. Erected by the Ladies' 
Memorial Association of St. Augustine, Fla., A. D. 1S72." "In Alemoriam. Our loved ones \vho 
gave their lives in the service of the Confederate States." "They died far from the home that gave 
them birth." " They have crossed the river and rest under the shade of the trees." 



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Originally, no doubt, the sciuarc was designed as a jiaratle for the maneuvering 
of troops. On a map of the town in P.ritish times, given in Old St. Augustine, it is 
designated as "The Tarade Clround." I'or this purpose it was employed so late an 
1865, when the sunset dress-parade of the I'nited States troops on the Plaza was — 
next to the daily arrival of the mail stage — the great event of the day. 

Always a place of public assemblage, the Plaza bar, been the scene of two inci- 
dents which strikingly illustrate the curious vicissitudes of the town's history. The 
first of these was on that historic- night in the year 1776 when the loyal I'.ritish sub- 
jects of King George III. came 
together here and burned in 
effigy two of the signers of the 
Declaration of Independence. 
The seconil one, nearly a hun- 
dred years later, was the Fourth 
cf July gathering of the citizens 
of St. Augustine in mass meeting 
on the Plaza to applaud the read- 
ing of that Declaration, which 
had now a new meaning because 
cemented and made good by the 
tremendous conflicts, the price- 
less sacrifices of the Civil War. 

A person of antiquarian tastes 
might find much of interest in 
the alterations which have been 
made during the last fifty years 
in the Plaza surroundings. The 
Alameda was originally a high- 
walled allev ten feet wide; an- 
other wall shut in the lot where 
the Post Office stands on the site 
of the old Governor's house, and another extended from St. George street east to 
;the Cathedral, and then to Charlotte street, where in Spanish times stood the guard 
house. 

Pacing the Plaza on the west (St. George street) is the Post Office; the east 
end is open to the bay. ( )n tlie south rises the spire of Trinity Church; and on the 
iK^-tli St. Joseph's Cathedral. The edifice was completed in 1791, burned in 1S87 
and rebuilt and enlarged in 1 887-88. One of the original bells bears the inscription, 
" Sanctf, • Josi-.i'u • Ora • Pro • Xor.i.; ■ I) • 1682." It has been claimed that 
this bell is the oldest on the continent; it may be the most ancient within the limits 
of the United States; it antedates by three years the famous bell in the Dutch church 
at Tarrytown, N. Y., which bears the date 1685. The Cathedral is not old when 
compared with numerous other church edifices in this country; it is, for example, 
nearlv a hundred vears more modern than the Tarrvtown church referred to. 




THK OLD CATnt.UK.\I. 



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Extending from the water battery of Fort Marion south, along the water front 
of the town to the United States barracks, stands a sea-wall of coquina capped with 
New England granite. It affords a necessary protection against the encroachment 
of the sea. The site of St. Augustine is so low that under certain conditions of wind 
and tide the waves would inundate much of the town. In heavy east storms the 
water dashes over the top of the wall. The need of such a barrier against the sea 
was recognized at an early time. There is a touch of the humorous side of history 
in the spectacle of Spain, having chosen this bit of Florida soil for a town, building 
first a huge fort to defend it from invaders, and then a great wall to protect it from 
the inroads of the sea. 'J'he records tell us that the soldiers volunteered their labor 
and contributed part of their pay toward the construction of the first sea-wall. They 
were wise enough in their day and generation to understand that if the town were 
swept away their occupation of garrisoning it would tumble into the sea along with it. 
The present wall was built by the United States, in 1835-42, as a complement to the 
repairs of Fort Marion, at an expense of $100,000. Eength, 3^ mile ; height, 10 feet. 

From the wall a charming prospect is afforded of the sail-dotted harbor, the 
shining sand dunes of the beach, the green stretch of Anastasia with the lighthouse 
rising against the eastern skv, and the quivering mirage. From sea-wall and wharves 
sailing excursions may be made to the silvery beaches strewn with coquina seashells. 
The beaches are called North and South witii reference to the harbor entrance. 
North Beach is a term applied to the shores of both ocean and harbor and the long 
narrow spit of land formed by them. Along the shores extend irregular lines of 
sand dunes, which are ever shifting in the wind and changing their shape, like the 
northern snowdrifts they so closely resemble. 




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Oh, what shells ! Incredible that they should be selling for large prices by the quart, like candy 
in the Boston shops. They lie brilliant, vital, it seems sentient, beneath our touch, like flowers. We 
beach the Elizabeth upon the silver bar, and wander like children among them. At first I object to 
gathering them, as I do to rifling a garden; and to the last I find myself turning out of my way to avoid 
stepping upon the perfect and rich-tinted things; as if they had blood and could be hurt. — Elizabeth 
Stuart Phelps. 

At sunset the Florida seashore takes on a pecuUar beauty. Surf and beach are 
transplendent with the soft shades and delicate tints of the sky; the atmosphere is 
aglow with color, and there comes to one the novel experience of not alone beholding 
the distant glories of the west, but of actually standing in and being surrounded by 
the effulgence of the dying day. 

But the average St. Augustine skipper is not inclined to linger for sunset effects 
on the North Beach; the one practical consideration with him is that when the sun 
goes down the sea breeze will go down too, and his boat and party will be becalmed; 
experience has taught him the wisdom of an early return to town. 

The porpoises which frequent the harbor in great numbers have always been a 
conspicuous feature of these waters. Away back in 1563, before the Spaniards had 
founded St. Augustine, the French explorers who came here found the porpoises (or 
dolphins) so numerous that they gave to the river the name Rivih-e des Dauphines, 



THE HOTEL PONCE DE LEON. 

IT HAS ever been the fashion in describing- St. Augustine lo lay empliasis on tiie 
Spanish character of the town. With the one exception of tlie fort, however, no 
speciallv notable e.\"ani[)le of .Spanish architecture was to be found here. 
Throughout the entire period of its rule from Madrid the town appears to have 
been alwavs poor, as the I!oucaniers found it in the middle of the seventeenth 
century. And vet no natural conditions were wanting. The sky above St. Augustine 
arches as delicately blue and soft as that of Seville ; the sunlight is as warm and as 
golden as that which tloods the patios of Spanish Alcazars; the Florida heavens are 
as radiantly brilliant by night, and the full moon floats as luminously above the 
Atlantic coast as where the pinnacles and minarets of Valencia glitter in its beams on 
the Mediterranean shore. Add to these natural adaptations the historic associations 
of Spain and the Spaniards, and there is little room ftjr wonder that the visitor looked 
for some architectural monuments, other than gloomy fortifications, to commemorate 
the dignity and pride of the ancient Spanish rule. 

Among those who as tourists found their way to St. Augustine was Mr. Henrv 
M. Flagler, of New York. He recognized the possibilities of the place, and happily 
resolved to make them good. 

The architects to whom the scheme was imparted, and the execution of it in- 
trusted, caught its spirit and entered upon their task with the enthusiasm born of a 
ready sympathy. The style most appropriate was manifestly to be sought in the 
architecture of Spain, and must be Spanish, not Moorish. Selection was made of the 
Spanish Renaissance, and this was well chosen, for it was that style whose development 
coincided with the most glorious period of Spanish history. It was in the ever mem- 
orable age when the Ab)ors had been expelled from Granada anti all Spain was united 
under Ferdinand and Isabel, when Spanish explorers were conquering America, when 
into the treasury of Spain was flowing the wealth of the Indies, and when the em- 
pire was at the zenith of opulence and power — that Spanish architecture found its 
highest expression in Renaissance forms. It was in the epoch-making years when 
Columbus gave to Ferdinand and Isabel a new world that Diego de SiJoe planned 
the Cathedral of Granada, in whose magnificent Capilla Real the sculptured effigies 
of those sovereigns repose. While Cortcz and Pizarro were looting the Sun temples 
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Spanish architects were building cathedrals and universities and royal courts. 'J he 
beg-mning of the Spanish Renaissance, too, was in the years of Ponce de Leon and 
the discovery of Florida ; its glory had not passed v.hen our old Florida town was 
established. None more fitly chosen then ; nor unless architectural style be wholly 

meaningless could 
the purpose of the 
hotel architects have 
been so well attained 
with any other. And 
since history is so 
largely a chronicle of 
wars and conquests, 
and the recordsof the 
early years of St. Au- 
gustine have in them 
so much that is dark 
and cruel and forbid- 
ding in Spanish char- 
acter, we ought to be 
grateful both for the 
generous enterprise 
which planned this 
architectural adorn- 
ment of the city, and 
for the good taste 
which has embodied in the adornment a reminder of the brighter qualities of 
the Spanish race, its genius and its art. 

From no point of view are the external forms and colors other than pleasing. 
If this is true of the general impression, when one looks upon it from the Ala- 
meda, or from the west through the green foliage of orange and oak, much more is 
it true when we come to study the details of construction and decoration within. As 
we have said, the scheme of the projector of this palatial structure did not end with 
the erection of a richly appointed and luxurious hotel ; his purpose reached beyond 
this, and demanded that, as the shell material of the walls was found here on Anas- 
tasia Island, and the hotel was in its very structure to be of St. Augustine, so in their 
decoration the walls should speak of Spanish St. Augustine and its storied past. 

The historic symbolism of the decoration is to be observed at the very gateway 
of the court. The entrance, in the center of the one-story portico, on the Alameda, 
is designated by two independent gateposts, on each one of which, carved in high 
relief, is a lion's masque. It is the heraldic lion of Leon, that sturdy Spanish town 
which so long and so bravely withstood the Moors ; it is an emblem, too, of the 
doughty warrior, Juan Ponce de Leon, proclaimed in his epitaph "a lion in name 
and a lion in heart." Above the full centered arch of the gateway, repeated in the 
spandrels of the panel arches, is the stag's head, which was the sacred totem of Seloy. 



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Without the council hall, aloft on its staff was the effiij;)- of an antlered stag, iooking^ out over the 
ocean toward the sunrise. For annually, at the comino; of sprinjj, the people of Seloy selected the skin 
of a huge deer, stufTed it with choicest herbs and decked it with fruits and flowers; and then bearing 
it with music and song to the appointed spot and setting it up on its lofty perch, consecrated it as a 
new ofTering to the Sun god, that because of it he might smile upon the fields and fructify the planted 
seed and send to his children an abuntlanl harvest — Old St. .1 itgiistiiw, " 'J'/ie I/ugtieiiots in Florit/a." 

Passing beneath the raised portctillis of the gateway and througli the portico, we 
enter the foimtain court, a dehcious mass of foHage in many shades of green, with 
tropical plants, waving phnnes, brilliant flowers, and a fountain plashing in the center. 
On the north side of the court, directly opposite the gateway, is the grand en- 
trance; and in the centers of the wings, east and west, are other entrances. From 
the gateway and the entrances walks converge to the fountain in the center, and are 
intersected by another circular walk, which runs around the court. The whole area 
is thus divided into garden terraces of geometric patterns, after the Spanish manner. 
The court is surrounded by arcades, whose pillars and arches give them the char- 
acter of cloistered walks. Rooms open upon the arcades, vines clamber over their 
arches, and easy chairs invite to repose. The ranges of windows in the second story 
are broken, in the spaces above the doorways, by arched open balconies; and around 
the third story, just beneath the overhanging roof, is a continuous loggia, whose 
carved woodwork is in pleasant contrast with the masonry. Still higher, in the great 
red roofs, are the rows of dormer-windows, giving a cosy, home-like character to the 
whole composition, and suggesting swallows under the eaves, although there are no 
swallows here. The central dome of the main building is one of the distinguishing 
features of the Spanish Renaissance, and the open arcaded story at the top was with 
the architects of that period a favorite device to secure lightness and deep shadows. 

Turn which way we will in the court, there arc charming combinations of light 
and shade; the general effect is restful; there are cool inviting vistas everywhere. 
Here, where the sun shines in winter as in summer, the architects have improved 
every opportunity to make the most of shadow effects; and the overhanging roofs, 
aftbrdmg grateful shade, are repeated c^gain and again. 

From the gateway of the court the majestic towers are seen for the first time in 
their full proportions. The towers are square, with a balustrade about the top, and 
from the upper platform is carried up a round tower, with high conical roof, sur- 
mounted by an elaborate metal finial. Each side of the square tower is pierced near 
the top with an arched window, opening upon a flat corbelled balcony, with a low 
projection. These windows remind us of the balconies of Mohammedan mosques; 
and from them, at morning, noon or nightfall, we might almost e.xpect to hear the 
muezzin's call to prayer. Above these windows is an open gallery of observation. 
The massive and donjon character, which towers of this magnitude might easily 
have, has been entirely avoided, and their chief characteristic, considering the size, 
is an airy lightness entirely in keeping with the remainder of the composition. The 
shallow and color combinations, as the eye follows the stately tower to the bright 
metal tip, 165 feet against the blue sky, are changeful and effective. 

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marble, stone and terra-cotta, the shaft being of terra-cotta inlaid with marble mosaics, 
surrounded with grotesque frogs and turtles and other water creatures in the basins, 
all spouting water in different directions — we approach the grand entrance. This is a 
full-centered arch, twenty feet wide. Around the face of the arch, in a broad band, 
carved in relief on a row of shields, a letter to a shield, runs the legend. Ponce de Leon. 
Garlands depend from the shields, which are supported by mermaids. This is an- 
other suggestion of the sea as the source whence came the shell composite of the hotel 
walls; and also of the sea as the field of his achievements whose name is here in- 
scribed. The suggestion is further emphasized in the shell-patterned diaper in the 
spandrels of the arch, and yet again in the marine devices of the coats-of-arms on the 
two shields. To complete the composition of the doorway, there are above the main 
arch six small full-centered arches, in pairs, carried on spirally-fiuted columns. About 
each pair of arches is an elaborate belt moulding, which is also carried down in vert- 
ical lines on each side of the main door, terminating in corbels at the springing line 
of the arch. On either side of the door is a circular window of stained-glass of geo- 
metric pattern. 

The other entrances, on the east and west, should have attention before we leave 
the court. In the wall, on each side of the doorway, is a deep fountain niche, with 
the top carried up into pinnacles, which give fine shadow effects. The water issues 
from the mouth of a dolphin. Above the door, in the key of the arch, is a shield 
with a shell device, and medallions with Spanish proverbs occupy the spandrels. As 
in the main entrance, the composition of the doorway is completed by arched open- 
ings above; the arches are carried on similar spirally-fluted columns, and there are 
elaborate belt mouldings. The dolphins of the fountain niches have special appro- 
priateness; they are not only typical of the sea, but have a local significance as well, 
for the bay of St. Augustine once bore the name River of Dolphins, given it by 
Laudonniere, the Huguenot captain, who anchored his ships here in 1564 (see p. 75). 
The allusion to the sea, in the dolphins and the shells, is a motive repeated again and 
again throughout the hotel; even the door-knobs are modeled after shells. 

The garlands and Cupids on the window caps and the other decorations and orna- 
ments of the court deserve a more minute description, but their elaborateness and pro- 
fuseness forbid more than just an indication of them. The amount of wall space is 
so enormous that it was impossible to treat all the surfaces with like richness; this led 
the architects to distribute the ornamentation and make it very rich, thus forming the 
most happy contrasts, really producing all the cffec: that it was possible to obtain, 
and avoiding the fault of ovei"-clecoration. 

Standing in the doorway of the main entrance and looking through the pillars of 
the vestibule to the caryatides of the rotunda, and l)eyond them to the marble columns 
at the entrance of the dining hall, we begin to have some conception of how rich and 
palatial is the hotel. The vestibule opens upon a corridor, surrounding a rotunda 
which occupies the great central space of this ni;iin building On the right a broad 
hall leads past the hotel office to various |:)ublic roonis; another on the left leads to 
the ground parlor; and directly opposite, a broad marble stairway ascends to the 
dining hall. The pavement of vestibule, corridor and rotunda is a mosaic of tiny 



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bits of marble, laid in Renaissance manner. The wainscoting of the vestibule is of 
choice Numidian marbles imported from Africa; that of the corridor is of quartered 
oak. Marble fireplaces of generous dimensions give an air of welcome, and all the 
suggestions are of hospitality and comfort. 

In composition and decoration the rotunda is a marvel of grace and beauty. 
The immense dome is supported by four massive piers and eight pillars of oak, carved 
into caryatides of life size, cut from the solid quartered wood, and terminating in. 
fluted shafts. The sylph-like figures have laughing, mischievous faces, and a won- 
drous semblance of life. They are in groups of four, standing back to back; and so 
graceful are the forms, so light and airy the poses, we forget the tremendous weight 
they are supporting. The rotunda is four stories in height, forming arcades and 
galleries at each story whose arches and columns are of different designs. These 
galleries overhang each other, and are supported by decorated vaults forming pene- 
trations. The effect is most pleasing, as one looks up through the entire open space, 
to the great circular penetration in the vault of the dome, sixty-eight feet above. 

While the decorations here are true to the Spanish Renaissance style, the motives 
for them have been found in the Spain and the Florida of the sixteenth century; the 
symbolism is of the spirit of that age and the impulses which then held sway. 
Painted on the pendentives of the cove ceiling of the second story, are seated female 
figures typical of Adventure, Discovery, Conquest and Civilization. Four other 
figures, which are standing, represent the elements, Earth, Air, Fire and Water. The 
paintings are in oil on a silver ground; the colors are rich and varied, and the ac- 
cessories chosen with excellent taste. In the four subjects last named the com- 
position is completed with arabesque figures of appropriate designs; and the several 
backgrounds are scattered with distinctive emblematic devices. 

Adventure wears a cuirass and in her helmet an eagle's crest. She holds a drawn 
sword. The pose is eager and alert; the features and the bearing denote reckless 
enterprise, courage, readiness to encounter peril, and the resolution which overcomes. 
The emblems on the background are arrows radiating in different directions. 

Diseovery is robed in drapery whose blue is the blue of the sea. In her right 
hand is held a globe, the other rests upon a tiller. The pose of the head and the far 
reaching gaze are as if with swelling heart she were surveying the outstretched ex- 
panse of a newly-revealed continent. The emblems are sails. 

Conquest^ clad in martial red, with helmet and cuirass of mail, firmly grasps an 
upright sword, significant of might and war-won supremacy. The look in her face is 
of exultant mastery, grim consciousness of power, and a purpose inexorable. On the 
background are daggers. 

Civilization is clothed in white and wears a crown. In her lap is an open book, 
the symbol of knowledge. Her face has the repose of dignity and benevolence. The 
background reveals the repeated figure of the cross, suggesting the civilizing in- 
uuences of Christianity. 

Earth is represented as of dark complexion and is clad in robes of russet. She 
extends a horn of plenty, overflowing with fruits and the bounties of the earth; and 
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the earth, as distinguished from those of the air. Snails are the devices on the 
background. 

Air is an etherial form, with winged heels, fair hair and diaphanous drapery 
of a very pale blue tint which fades at times almost into absence of color. One hand 
restrains the flight of two magnificent eagles, and in the other are lightly held dande- 
lion downs, ready at a breath to spring into the air and float away on the zephyrs. 
This is one of the most charming conceits in the whole scheme of decoration. The 
emblems on the background are dragon-flies and butterflies. 

The figure of Fire, auburn-haired and clothed in drapery of glowing red, stands 
amid tongues of flame and holds on high a blazing torch. The arabesques are sal- 
amanders, embodying the only life fabled to live in fire. The emblems are flames. 

In sharp contrast with these brilliant hues are the marine tints which predominate 
in the pictured fancy of Water. She is fair-skinned and fair-haired-; her robes are 
of a very pale green and white; and she stands in a shell to which sea-mosses are 
clinging. With ribbons she controls two prancing sea-horses, emblematic of the 
ocean's restlessness and might. On the background are starfishes. 

The decorations in the penetrations are lyres with swans on either side. The 
lyres are surmounted alternately by a masque of the Sun god of the Florida Indians, 
and by the badge of the most illustrious order of Spanish knighthood, the Golden 
Fleece, depending from its flint-stone surrounded by flames of gold. Where this ap- 
pears, the design of the border is the Collar of the Golden Fleece, the chain of double 
steels interlaced with flint-stones. 

Below in the spandrels of the corridor arches is seen the stag's head, barbaric 
emblem of sun-worshipping Seloy. Shields bear the arms of the present provinces 
of Spain, and on cartouches are emblazoned the names of the great discoverers of 
.\merica. Cornucopias are favorite forms here as elsewhere throughout the hotel. 

The decorations do not end with this story. The upper dome is modeled in 
high relief; around its base dances a band of laughing Cupids; between these 
figures are circular openings; and the vault above is all modeled with delicate tracery 
of > pure white and gold effects; casques and sails signify the military and maritime 
achievements of Spain; and the crown of the dome is surrounded with eagles. 

, A broad stairway of marble and Mexican onyx leads from the corridor to a landing, 
from which is entered the passage leading to the dining hall. In delightfully antique 
letters set in mosaic in the floor of the landing, is the aptly chosen verse of welcome, 
taken from Shenstone: 

Whoe'er has travell'd life's dull round, 
Where'er his stages may have been. 
May sigh to think he still lias found 
The warmest welcome at an inn. 

From this landing, stairways of oak lead to the rotunda and halls above. The wain- 
scoting of the stairways is of Verona and pink Numidian marble; and above this, set 
injthe walls, in frames of oak, are two paintings, "The Landing of Columbus,"' and 
"The Introduction of Cliristianity to the Huns by Charlemagne." The passage 
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From filioto^rnfli hv tlir Ajtrtvt'r Puh. Cn 

On each end, north and south, of the central hall is a high wainscoting in antique 
oak of choice grains. Above this, on a ground of blue green, is a panel of dancing 
C'upids, with roguish faces and outstretched hands, representing the feast; some ex- 
tend clusters of luscious grapes, and bread and cups of wine in welcome to the 
guests, while others ladle steaming olla from great Spanish caldcrons. On the wall 
above are pictured ships of Spain, with sails full set and gracefully waving streamers 
and pennants; they are the high-pooped Spanish caravels of the sixteenth century, 
just such vessels as that in which came Ponce de Leon to Florida in his search for 
the fountain. In the key of the arch over the musicians' balcony is a shield bearing 
an heraldic device, with legend, •' P de L — 1885-1887." Dancing girls support the 
shield, and outside of these are figures of Fame blowing trumpets. Four mermaids 
one in each corner, support the border which goes over the ends of the ceiling. 
On the yellow surface of the vault are delicate arabesques traced in various colors 
and gold and silver. 

On the pendentives between the stained-glass windows, allegorical paintings 
represent the Four Seasons. They are female figures, winged to typify their 
rapid flight; and the two different fancies present a dual conception of each 
subject. In grace of form not less than in their admirable color effects these paint- 
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artist has gone to nature. The pale draperies of S/>riiig reflect the deHcate green 
shades of the fresh May foliage ; in one fancy she is pictured as sowing grain ; in the 
other she holds spring llowers and a branch with bursting buds. The draperies of 
the figures of Summer are bright in color; in one fancy the accessories are a sheaf 
of wheat and a sickle; in the other luxuriant summer verdure. Autumn is given 
russet robes ; one figure with bunches of purple grapes represents the vintage; the 




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Other dancing, with a tambourine, the merry-making of the harvest home. In the 
paintings of Winter the colors are rich and warm ; the two aspects of the season 
here depicted are its hardships and its festivities ; the first figure, warmly clad, with 
bright scarf and closely muffled hcxnl, bears an axe ami a bundle of fagots ; the 
other, partially draped, is bringing in the boar's head. The grand parlor is a mag- 
nificent room 104X53 feet. The walls and decorations are in ivory-white and gold, 
with frescoes by Tojetti of C'upitls and garlands and filmy drapery amid the clouds 
in the corner ceilings. 

On the south side of the .\lameda, opposite the Ponce de Leon, is the Alcazar, 
an adjunct of the hotel, and in .architecture a fitting complement of it. The Alcazar, 
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is original throughout. Within is a court of flowers, shrubbery and vines, with an 
ingenious fountain j^laying in the center. The court — not unworthy to be compared 
with the patios of the Alcazars in Spain — is surrounded by an arcade, upon which 
open shops and offices. Beyond this court are the great swimming pools of sulphur 
water from the artesian wells and of salt water from the bay. South are tennis courts. 
The group of concrete hotels on the Alameda is completed by the Hotel 
Cordova. The Cordova was designed by Mr. F. W. Smith. In style it docs not 
follow the Spanish Renaissance architecture; the suggestions for its heavy walls and 
battlemented towers were found in the strong castles and town defenses of Spain; 
it recalls those architectural monuments of the warring ages of the past; vast piles 
of masonry, which grew with the increments of hundreds of years, amid the conflicts 
of Roman and Goth and Moor and Christian. Thus the archwav on the north 
facade, formerly a gateway, flanked by massive towers round and square, was an 
adaptation of the Puerto del Sol, or Gate of the Sun, of Toledo, one of the famous 
remains of the Moorish dominion in Spain. There is something in the strength of 
the Cordova that recalls to old residents of St. Augustine the coquina defenses 
which once distinguished this locality; oj^posite the Cordova was the high-walled 
garden of the Spanish Governor with its biittery facing the west. The balconies of 
the lower range of windows are the ''kneeling balconies" of Seville, so called 
because the protruding base was devised by Michael Angelo to permit the faithfu* 
to kneel at the passing of religious festivals. 




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FORT MARION. 




ORT MARION is at the north end of the sea-wall 
and commands the harbor. It is not occupied by 
troops. Open daily (admission free) from 8 A. M. 
to 4 P. M. Afternoon is the most pleasant time for 
visiting the fort. Sergeant George M. Brown, who 
is in charge, will conduct visitors through the case- 
mates. For this service, which is entirely voluntary, a fee 
is usually given. The fort, which is the only example of 
mediseval fortification on this continent, is a magnificent 
specimen of the art of military engineering as developed at the time of its construc- 
tion. It is a massive structure of coquina stone, with curtains, bastions, moat and 
outworks, covering, with the reservation, more than twenty-two acres. 

Surrounding the fort on the three land sides is an immense artificial hill of earth, 
called the glacis. From the crest of the glacis on the southeast, a bridge (i), formerly 
a drawbridge, leads across part of the moat to the barbacan. The barbacan is a for- 
tification, surrounded by the moat, directly in front of the fort entrance, which it was 
designed to protect. In the barbacan at the stairway (2) are the Arms of Spain. A 
second bridge (3), originally a drawbridge, leads from the barbacan across the wide 
moat to the sally-port (4), which is the only entrance to the fort. This was provided 
with a heavy door called \\\q. portcullis. On the outer wall, above the sally-port is the 
errutehcon. bearing the Arms of Spain; and the Spanish legend, which read: 

REYNANDO EN ESPANA EL SENr , 

DON FERNANDO SEXTO Y .SIENDO ' \ 

GOVoR Y Cx\Pn DE ESa Cd San AUGn DE * 

LA FLORIDA E SUS RROVa EL MARESCAL 
DE CAMPO DNALONZO FERN'do HEREDA 
ASI CONCLUIO ESTE CASTILLO EL AN 
OD 1756 DIRI^ENDO LAS OBRAS EL 
CAP INGNRo dN PEDRO DE BROZAS 
Y GAR AY 



Translation: "Don Ferdinand YL, being King of Spain, and the Field Marshal Don Alonzo 
Fernando llereda being Governor and Captain-General of this place, San Augustin of Florida, and its 
province, this fort was finished in the year 1756. The works were directed by the Captain-Engineer. 
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Its present condi- 



The inscription has been almost obliterated by the elements, 
tion is admirably shown in the illustration on the opposite page. 

At the second drawbridge we come face to face with the main entrance, surmounted by a tablet 
bearing an inscription and the Spanish Coat of Arms. ' It seems to be two dragons, two houses for the 
dragons, and a supply of mutton hung up below,' said Sara irreverently making game of the royal 
insignia of Spain. — Coiisiatice Foiimore ]]'oolso)i. 

Within the fort on the right of the entrance hall (5) is the old bake room (6), and 
beyond this are two dark chambers (7 and 8), which were probably used for storage. 
On the left \'i\.\\Q. guards room (7 left). The hall opens upon a large square court 

(103 by 109 feet). Around 
this court are casemates (10), 
or rooms which were used for 
barracks, messrooms, store- 
rooms, etc. Some of these 
casemates were divided into 
lower and upper apartments. 
To each casemate on the 
west side a beam of light is 
admitted through a narrow 
window or embrasure, high 
up near the arched ceiling. 
From the first east casemate 
a door leads back into an in- 
terior dark room (9). From 
the furthest casemate (11) on 
the same side an entrance 
leads back into a dark cham- 
ber (12), off from which a 
narrow passage leads through 
a wall 5 feet deep into a 
space 6 feet wide; and from 
this a low aperture 2 feet 
square gives access through 
another wall 5 feet deep, into 
an innermost vault or cham- 
ber (14), which is 19^2 feet 
long, 13^ feet broad, and 8 
feet high. The arched roof 
is of solid masonry. There is no other outlet than the single aperture. This is the far 
famed " dungeon " of Fort Marion. It was designed for a powder magazine or a bomb- 
proof. When the fort was in repair the chamber was dry and fit for use as a safe 
deposit for explosives; but when the water from above percolated through the coquina, 
this bomb-proof or powder magazine became damp and unwholesome. For this 
reason it was no longer used except as a place to throw rubbish into. Then it bred 




PLAN OF FORT MARION. 
From Old St. A ugttstiize. 
I, bridge from barbacan to glacis. 2, stairway to barbacan, 3, bridge over 
moat. 4, sally-port. 5, hall, 6, bake room. 7, 8, dark rooms. 7 (left) guards' 
room. 9, interior dark room. 10, 10, casemate-.. 11, casemate. 12, interior 
darkroom. 14, bomb proof 15, chapel. 16, dark room.. lort, treasurer's room. 
IOC, casemate from which Coacoochee escaped. B, bastion. W, water-tower. 



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fevers, and finally, as a sanitary measure, the Spaniards walled it up, and the middle 
room (12) as well. They did this in the readiest way l)y closing the entrance with 
cotjuina masonry. A\'hen the United States came into possession of the fort the 
officers stationed here did not suspect the existence of these disused chambers, 
although among the residents of the town were men who had knowledge of them, 
anil of their prosaic use as a deposit for rubbish. One of these residents, who was 
still living in 1S88, related to the writer his recollection of the disused powder maga- 
zine, as he was familiar with it when he was a boy employed at the fort. In 1839 the 




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masonry above the middle chamber caved in, and while the engineers were making 
repairs, the closed entrance to the innermost chamber was noticed, ar.d investigation 
led to its discovery. Refuse and rubbish were found there. Tb.e report was given 
out — whether at the time or later — that in this rubbish were some bones. From this 
insignificant beginning the myth-makers evolved first the tale that the bones were 
human; then they added a rusty chain and a staple in the wall — a gold ring on one 
skeleton's finger — instruments of torture — iron cages — a pair of boots — and a Spanish 
Inquisition tale of horror. The guide books of ten years ago were devoted chiefly 
to the dungeon story. \\'riters from St. Augustine have nii-!g the changes on it; 
we quote some of them and by way of comment add a paragraph from " Old St. 
Augustine:" 



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in <ji;e of tiiem [the two cliambers] a wooden machine was found, w-hich some supposed mii^ht 
have been a rack, and i,i tie oih.er a quantity of human bones. — William CiilU-n Bryant (1S42). 

A human skeleton, wilii the fragments ef a pair of boots and an empty mug for water, it is alleged, 
were discovered within. * * * As to the name, character, standing, guilt or innocence, pleasures 
or pain, of the poor unfortunate to whom the boots and bones belonged, there is silence. — Rev. R. K. 

There was found in one corner of it a human skeleton, the soles of a pair of shoes, and an earthen 
jug and cup. Not a single other object did its naketl, shiny, arched walls cover. — Chas. I.anman (1854). 

Legends connected with the dark charabevs and prison vaults, the chains, the instruments of tor- 
ture, the skeletons walled in, its closed and hidden recesses. — Geo. A. Fairbanks (1858). 

The incident, even if true, might well be spared. \Mio thinks otherwise has strangely misread the 
history of the changing fortunes which transformed the Indian council house into the fort of logs, and 
have converted Spain's proudly equipped fortress into this massive pile of crumbling masonry. — Old St. 
A ugustme. 

Facing the court on the 
north was the chapel (15). 
Its walls and ceiling, and 
altars and niches, are bright 
with mould and moss and 
lichen. Strange mutations 
have come to town and fort 
since the room was dis- 
mantled of its ornaments. 
The elaborate portico of the 
chapel was the most preten- 
tious bit of architecture of 
the fort ; but it has so crum- 
bled away that its form can 
no longer be traced. In the 
wall outside, above the chapel 
door, the French astrono- 
mers, who came here in 1879 
to observe the transit of 
Venus, have left a marble 
tablet in commemoration of 
the visit. 

In the northwest bastion 
is another dark room (i6).- 
Some of these dark dun- 
geons of the fort have been 
used at different times for 
the confinement of prisoners. 
Patriots from Charleston were confined here by the British in the Revolution 
the Spaniards kept the fam('us outlaw McC.irth in one of these cells five years- 
and there are old people in St. Augustine to day who will tell of pallid convicts led 




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from the fort dungeons to execution. At the close of the last war refractory soldier.^ 
were punished bv sohtary confinement in these cells. Casemate \oc is known as 
" Coacoochee's cell," and is famous as the one from which that chief escaped. Coa- 
coochee and Osceola, two of the most influential chiefs of the Seminoles in the war 
which began in 1835, were imprisoned in Fort Marion. Coacoochee resolved up in 
escape. His subsequent account of the affair was as follows : 

We had been growing sickly from day to day, and so resolved to make our escape, or die in the 
attempt. We were in a room eighteen or twenty feet square. All the light admitted was through a 
hole (embrasure) about eighteen feet from the floor. Through this we must effect our escape, or 
remain and die with sickness. A sentinel was constantly posted at the door. As we looked at it from 
our beds, we thought it small, but believed that, could we get our heads through, we should have no 
further nor serious difficulty. To reach the hole was the first object. In order to effect this, we from, 
time to time cut up the forage bags allowed us to sleep on and made them into ropes The hole I 
could not reach when upon the shoulder of my companion ; but while standing upon his shoulder I 
worked a knife into a crevice of the stonework as far up as I could reach, and upon this I raised mvself 
to the aperture, when I found that, with some reduction of person, I could get through. In order to 
reduce ourselves as much as possible, we took medicine iive days. Under the pretext of being verv 
sick, we were permitted to obtain the roots we required. For some weeks we watched the moon, in 
order that the night of our attempt it should be as dark as possible. At the proper time we commenced 
the medicine, calculating upon the entire disappearance of the moon. The keeper of this prison, on 
the night determined upon to make the effort, annoyed us by frequently coming into the room, and 
talking and singing. At first we thought of tying him and putting his head in a bag ; so that, should 
he call for assistance, he could not be heard. ^Ve first, however, tried the experiment of pretending to 
be asleep, and when he returned to pay no regard to him. This accomplished our object. He came 
in and went immediately out, and we could hear him snore in the immediate vicinity of the door. I 
then took the rope, which \ve had secreted under our bed, and, mounting upon the shoulder of my 
comrade, raised myself by the knife worked into the crevice of the stone, and succeeded in reaching the 
embrasure. Here 1 made fast the rope that my friend might follow me. I then passed through the 
hole a sufficient length of it to reach the ground upon the outside (about twenty-five feet), in the ditch. 
I had calculated the distance when going for roots. With much difficulty I succeeded in getting my 
head through, for the sharp stones took the skin off my breast and back. Putting my head through 
first, 1 was obliged to go down head foremost until my feet were through, fearing every moment the 
rope would break. At last, safely on the ground, 1 awaited with anxiety the arrival of my comrade. I 
had passed another rope through the hole, which, in the event of discovery, Talmus Hadjo was to pull, 
as a signal to me from the inside that he was discovered and could not come As soon as I struck 
the ground, I took hold of the signal for intelligence from my friend. The night was very dark. Two 
men passed near me, talking earnestly, and I could see them distinctly. Soon I heard the struggle of 
my companion far above me. lie had succeeded in getting his hea.i through, but his body would 
come no further. In the lowest tone of voice I urged him to throw out his breath, and then try; soon 
after he came tumbling down the whole distance. For a few moments I thought him dead. I dragged 
him to some water close by which restored him , but his leg was so lame he was unable to walk. I 
took liim upon my shoulder to a scruli, near the town. Daylight was just breaking ; it was evident we 
must move rapidly. I caught a mule in the adjoining field, and, making a bridle out of my sash, 
mounted mv companion, and started for the St. John's River. The mule was used one day; but, fear- 
ing the whites would track us, we felt more secure on foot in the hammock, though moving very slow 
Thus we continued cur journey five days, subsisting on roots and berries, when I joined my band, thc'i 
assembled on the headwaters of the Tomoka River, near the Atlantic coast. 

Coacct)chee finally surrendered and was removed to Arkansas with his people. 
Osceola was removed to Fort Moultrie, Charleston, where shortly after he died. 



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THE SFMINOI.K THIFF OSCFOLA. 
From the Cathr /orirait, f>aimed at fori Moultrie, Charleston 



From the court a stone ascent leads up to the terrcphin of the tamparis. This 
ascent was originaliy an iiicUiicd plane for artillery. 

At the outer angle of each biuiion (H) is a snitry box (W), that on the northwest 
(25 feet high) being also a 7K<atch touer for looking to seaward. l)istanci> from corner 
to corner. 317 feet. The four walls of the fort between the bastions are the curtains. 
There are four ecjiial bastions and four e(]ual iiirtains. The walls of the fort are 
9 feet thick at base. 4;.- at top, and 25 feet high, above the present moat level. 
Battleniciits similar to those on the other sides formerly defended the east (water) 
i^ide of the ramixirts. The bastions are filletl with earth, and there is no foundation 



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for the romantic tale of a sub- 
terranean passageway which 
formerly led from the southwest 
bastion to a neighboring con- 
vent. The fort is surrounded 
by a moat, 40 feet wide. It 
was formerly deeper than at 
present, with a perfectly ce- 
mented concrete floor, and was 
flooded from the bay at high 
tide. Running along the outer 
edge of the moat are narrow 
level spaces called covered-ways; 
I and wider levels called places- 
of-an/is, where artillery was 
mounted and the troops gath- 
ered, protected by the outer 
wall or parapet, from which 
slopes the glacis. The fortifi- 
cation of stone {tuater battery) 
in front is of modern construc- 
tion; it was built by the United States in 1842. The small brick building [/lot s/iot 
furnace) m the moat between the east curtain and the water dates from 1844. 




MENF.NDEZ. 




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THE SIKGK BY KRANCIS nRAKE. 



In different forms 
and bearing different 
names, St. Augus- 
tine's fort has been 
established more than 
three centuries. For 
two hundred years 
the fort was St. Aug- 
ustine, and St. Aug- 
ustine was Florida. 
The old maps show 
St. Augustine with its 
fortifications as the 
most important point 
in North America; 
and the historians 
have left us many an 
interesting picture of 
the fort in peace and 

war. First a rude and temporary structure of logs, it was expanded in plan and 

magnitude until there developed the stone fortress of 1756. Pedro Menendez, the 

founder of St. Augustine in 1565, utilized the Indian council-house as a defense 

against the threatened attack by the Huguenots from Fort Caroline on the St. John's 

River. After his heartless mas.sacre of the shipwrecked French at Matanzas Inlet, 

the cruel Spaniard stood in just 

fear of the coming of a fleet from 

Spain; and he set about the build- 
ing of a regular fort of logs. This 

■was the Fort San Juan de Pinos 

shown by Montanus, in his curious 

representation of St. Augustine 

with a background of hills. In 

those days there was a lookout 

tower on Anastasia Island, whence 

the watchers signalled to those in 

the fort the welcome coming of 

ships from Old Spain, or the 

dreaded approach of a hostile 

fleet. A token of weal or woe, in 

those days the signal Hag on Anas- 
tasia Island was as eagerly watched 

by the Spaniards ashore as ever now 

the light is looketl for by slujis at 

sea. In i5^'6, twenty years after in the old d.ws. 



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A VIE W of ihe TO iVN and CASTLE of S^A U G U S T 1 N E 
and the ENGLISH CAMP before it June 20. 1740. by THO^ STLVEIi 



the town was established, the lookout attracted the notice of the English sea-kir.g, 
Francis Drake, sailing along the coast with his fleet of high-pooped ships, on his way 
home from pillaging the cities of the Spanish Main; and he tarried long enough to 
ransack St. Augustine, and destroy by fire what he could not bear off. In the fort, 

which was built of 
huge pine logs, and 
was known to the 
Englishmen as S. 
John's Fort, they 
found "thirteene or 
fourteen e great 
peeces of brass ord- 
inance and a chest 
unbroken up, hav- 
ing in it the value 
of some two thous- 
and pounds sterl- 
ing, by estimation, 
of the King's treas- 
ure, to pay the soul- 
diers of that place, 
who were a hundred 
and fif tie men." De 
Bry's spirited sketch 
of the assault, by 
an artist on the spot, 
is copied here from 
the rare original. 
When the Spaniards 
discovered the co- 
quina (shell-stone) 
quarries they 
undertook the 
building of a fort 
of stone. When the 
dreaded Boucaniers 
descended upon St. 
Augustine in 1665, 
the fort was not in 
a condition to offer 
resistance, and gar- 
rison and towns- 
people fled in ter- 
ror into the woods. 




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t EusTaQa Island, if/i^/l tj fhtetiv itmtl Jr Ifu.thrs 

[> fiit/frj hat^iing Cannon tn reufh- of the Otstle 

K A North Trench J ^ ir ,t Mortttr ol i'l I IC >f' 

¥ Gfn* Ofjlethorj/s Sohhers Induuu A Snthjrs Terns 

(' A Ltickcuf ttiAen the l2'^ol Jitne 

U Sotihers lUitt Soilors liintitng Itute the W^ 

I .1 Sitntl Btitten ifttned at t'tu- tifi/iratirh 

fi I ap' Warrcu I'ontmonder ever the Siltior.r hOLftmy 

the Piuon Fltuf on boant tf Whooner 
L Tfte Sutlfr.\ welU to Wntee the ■ihtpi'ii'41 

1 niunt>nrvuiih.'~ lle(U>i ^ ^l|Uirre^. 
4 Tartar. 5 Theent^, 
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Etrtploy'tt in tfaj Ejjieetiaon iihi'ia ^t'P 'iaunefi 
400 Voblters ana WO h,iUat\.t 

Forces crthe \y,imanli itlOO bi^iUrj il sirt'iig OtJtte 
a/ut / TortiA hii harks and. a. SlutUow Hu'ir hl/ttl'nnjf 
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The walls are built of coquina, which in its thiy was considered a very excellent 
material for this purpose, since cannon halls would sink into the wall without shatter- 
ing it as they would harder stone. On the sea front of the southwest bastion are a 
number of crevices, which, according to local tradition, were caused by British cannon 
balls from the opposite shore when the fort was besieged by Oglethorpe. 

When the colony of Carolina was established the English grant extended so far 
south that it actually took in St. Augustine. The Spaniards, on the other hand, dis- 
puted England's right to any part of the 
continent whatever, and for the half 
century succeeding, Spanish expeditions 
sailed against the English colonies, and 
British expeditions came against St. 
Augustine. Governor Moore of Caro- 
lina led his forces against the town in 
i702,lnit was repulsed and driven back. 
When Oglethorpe brought out his 
Georgia colony, the Spaniards resented 
the new encroachments upon their ter- 
ritory, and the two colonies were at 
constant war. In 1740 Oglethorpe cap- 
tured the Spanish forts on the St. 
John's, and then, while his land forces 
besieged the town on the north, his 
naval contingent landed on Anastasia 
Island, and for forty days bombarded 
Fort San Marco. The townspeople took 
refuge in tiie fort, where they nearly 
starved before the siege was finally 
lifted. The Georgia general at length became discouraged and withdrew. 

In those days of crude weai)ons, the coquina bastions were capable of withstand- 
ing a much more serious attack than that of Oglethorpe's batteries; but the art of war 
has changed since then and Fort Marion's coquina would quickly be shattered by the 
artillery of the present. Shortly after commg into the possession of the United States, 
the fort was named Fort Marion, in honor of the famous Revolutionary hero. General 
/rancis Marion. 

Writing from St. Augustine, William Cullen Bryant criticised this as "a foolish change of name." 
But why foolish? If Moultrie is thus honored, and Sumter the " Game Cock," why not Marion the 
"Swamp Fo.x?" Is it not the veriest romance of history that the Spanish fortress planted here by 
Menendez, the hunter of French Huguenots, should at last yield up its saintly name for that of a hero 
in whose veins flowed the blood of other Huguenot e.xiles? And is it not the fmal justice of time that 
the British stronghold, within whose dungeons rebellious Patriots were immured, should receive from 
the nation which those prisoners helped to establish, the honored name of one who endured with them 
the perils and privations of its cause, and won with them the final glorious triumph? — " Old St. Augus- 
tine" Fort Marion. 




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ST FRANCIS BARRACKS. 




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OMPLEMENTING the battlements and watch-towers of Fort 
Marion on the north, the St. Francis Barracks stand out con- 
spicuously at the south end of the sea-wall facing the Matanzas. 
They are occupied by United States troops. The out-door 
concerts given by the military band, the dress-parades and the 
guard mount at sunset on the parade in front of the barracks 
are among the attractions of St. Augustine. 

Almost continuously since it was founded by the mailed 
soldiers of Menendez, St. Augustine has been a military sta- 
tion. Under Spanish rule it was little else than a garri- 
son post. When the British came, they emulated the martial 
•^i"'"* spirit of their predecessors, and on the plain south of the town, 

with bricks brought from the banks of the Hudson River, erected a huge barrack, 
which cost a tremendous sum, and shortly after completion went up in smoke. 

St. Francis Barracks take their name from the Franciscan convent, whose former 
site they occupy. The convent was abandoned when Florida was ceded to Great 
Britain in 1763; and when Spain resumed possession of the town, in 1783, it was 
utilized by the Spanish Governor as barracks for his troops. The old building has 
been greatly modified by the United States Government, although not entirely rebuilt; 
and some of the original coquina walls of the convent remain. 

To Florida with the adventurer had come the missionary; one to win treasure, the other to win 
souls. The gold-seeker returned from his quest chagrined; not so the Franciscan. He found here a 
field vast beyond reckoning; and, waiting to be gathered, a harvest more precious than had been pictured 
in the fondest dream of his pious enthusiasm. The military prestige of Florida soon faded away, but 
year by year its religious importance increased; and ever, with the expansion of his work, the Francis- 
can's zeal grew more intense and his labors more devoted. The country was in time erected into a 
religious province, with a chapter house of the Order of San Francisco at San Augustin; and thence the 
members went forth to plant the standard of their faith in the remotest wilderness. Far out on the 
border of savanna, in the depth of forest, and on the banks of river and lake, by the side of the Indian 
trails westward to the (kilf, north among the villages of Alachua, and south to everglade fastnesses; 
here and there, and everywhere that lost souls were worshipping strange gods, the Franciscan built his 
chapel, intrenched it round about with earthwork and palisade, and gathered the erring children of the 
forest to hear the wondrous storv of the Cross. — " O/i/ S/. Augustine," IVie Franciscans. 



.\ short distance south of the Barracks is the Militarv Cemeterv. An admission 



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BRITISH ST. AUGUSTINE. 
Showing Sea Wall extending to " The Parade," and Convent on present barracks site, 

pass is reciuircd and may be had on application to the adjutant of the post, whose 
office is opposite the Barracks. In the cemetery are the three low pyramids of 
masonry forming the tombs of officers and men who lost their lives in the Seminole 
War. '["he memorial shaft is commonly spoken of as '' Dade's jNIonumenl," because 
more than one hundred of the soldiers interred here were those who perished in the 
" Dade Massacre." This was one of the most tragic incidents of the Seminole War. 

In Au.s:ust, 1S35, Major Dade and a command of troops, no all told, were on their way from Fort 
Brooke to Fort King. At half past nine o'clock, Tuesday morning, August 28, they were marching 
through an open pine barren, four miles from the Great Wahoo Swamp. The bright run was shining; 
flowers bloomed along the path; gay butterflies flitted about them; the silence was broken only by the 
.Folian melody of the pines. The men were marching carelessly, with no suspicion of danger, where 
surely no foe could lurk. Suddenly, without an instant's warning — from pine, from palmetto scrub, 

from the very grass at their feet — burst upon them the shrill 
war-whoop, the flashing and crackling of rifles, and the whist- 
ling, deadly rain of bullets. Si.xty of the troops fell mortally 
wounded. The rest rallied; trained the cannon, and attempted 
to form breastworks of logs; but in vain. In quick succession, 
one after another, they fell. Had the earth yawned to swallow 
them like the army of Korah, the obliteration could have been 
little more complete. Of the iio, three, miserably wounded, 
dragged themselves away, two soon after to die of their wounds. 
— " 0/t/ Si. Augitstiiic," The Sciiiinolc. 







The pyramids arc stuccoed ami devoid of ornamentation. 
The inscriptions read: "Sacred to the memory of the Ol'ficers 
~ and Soldiers killed in battle and died on service during the 

Florida War." "This monument has been erected in token of respectful and affectionate remem- 
brance by their comrades of all grades, and is committed to the care and preservation of the .TarHson 
of St. Auguj^tine." 



ST. ANASTASIA ISLAND. 




N FRONT of the town, between bay and ocean, lies the 
Island of St. Anastasia. It is a favorite resort for excur- 
sion parties, and has many attractions for the tourist. 
The most pleasant time for a visit is the afternoon. The 
route is by ferryboat from Central Wharf and then by 
railway from the opposite shore across to the beach. 
The light-house is usually open to visitors; and when 
''^''^^Tjr:.^^,^-:,,/,;,s||;^^L-- convenient to do so, the keeper in charge, or assist- 
■> ■,/.'._ '\[ ■'*'*'-, ant, will accompany parties to the tower, whence a magni- 

'■- ■ ficent and far-extending view is afforded over sea and 

land. The light-house is 150 feet in height from base to light tower, the lamp being 
165 feet above sea level. Eight flights of spiral staircases lead to the tower. The 
light, technically classed as of the first-order, is a fixed white and revolving or flash 
light, flashing once every 3 minutes, visible 19 miles. The lamp itself is stationary, 
and the actual intensity of its flame does not change. The variability of the light is 
secured by the revolution of a glass lantern provided with a series of powerful lenses 
or gigantic bull's-eyes, each one sending out a great beam of light. The constant 
and steady beam from each lense revolves with the lantern. From St. Augustine at 
night this beam may distinctly be seen stretching out into the darkness, as it wheels 
in mighty revolutions about the tower. 

The purpose of the variability of the light is to render it distinguishable from 
other lights on the coast. Thus, while the St. Augustine light is a fixed white light 
varied by a flash every 3 minutes, the St. John's River light, the next one north, is a 
fixed white light; and the Cape Canaveral light, the next one south, flashes every 
minute. The black and white spiral stripes, which make the tower look like a gro- 
tesque Brobdingnagian barber's pole, serve to distinguish it from others by daylight; 
the tower of the St. John's River light is red, that of the Cape Canaveral light has 
black and white horizontal bands. 

The present light-house was built in 1 87 2-3, to take the place of an older coquina 
structure, whose ruins may be seen on the shore a short distance northeast. The 
latter has commonly, though incorrectly, been called the "old Spanish light- house." 



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Anastasia Island extends from St. Au.i^ustine south twelve miles to Mcitanzas 
Inlet, where are the picturesque ruins of an old Spanish fort; for tliis was one of the 
sea approaches to the town, and the Don must needs put a garrison there to 
defend it. 

The inlet cjf Matanzas takes its name from the S[)anish W(;rd ntataiiza (siynifNung 
slaughter) in commemoration of the massacre of the Huguenots which occurred here 
in 1565. No event in American history possesses more of tragedy and pathos tlian 
the martyrdom of these Frenchmen, who had left tlieir homes in ]"" ranee to establisli 
in the new world a refuge from the religious persecutions of their native land, but 




lUlN-i Oc Tine MATA.NZAS FORT. 



found in Florida the intolerance from which they hail tied, and perished at last by 
the hand of a bigot. 

The French, stationed at t'.ieir l"'ort Caroline, on the River May (St. John's), 
having left a few of their number to garrison the fort, set sail against the Spaniards, 
arrived off the bar of St. Augustine, and were driven to the south by a storm. The 
Spanish leader Menendez then led a force overland to the St. John's, surprised Fort 
Caroline and killed most of the garrison — a few of the French escaping to their siiips. 
Upon his return to St. Augustine, Menendez learned tiiat the French fleet had been 
wrecked. Me proceeded south to this inlet, discovered the Frenchmen on the other 
side, ami by false promises induced them to surrender and deliver up their arms. 
Then he sent them boats, brought them over, in small bands at a time, bound them, 
blindfolded them, led them behind the sand hills, and in the name of religion put 
them to death. The shores of the inlet have been modified by the action of the sea 
in the three hundred years which have elapsed since that occurrence; it is useless to 
speculate as to the exact locality where the tragedy took place. 



GUN AND ROD. 




AME and fish have always been among the attractions of St. 
Augustine; and, although the supply has been diminished 
of late years, there is still abundant reward for the pur- 
suit. Sportsmen and anglers who visit the Rangeleys, the 
Adirondacks and the St. Lawrence in summer, repair to 
Florida in the winter. There are men, who when fish are 
to be caught in Florida waters would no more stay in the 
North than the robins and bluebirds. Dr. C. J. Kenworthy, 
of Jacksonville, himself an ardent angler, tells a good story of a New York physician 
who, some winters ago, when there was yellow fever in one of the Gulf Coast towns, 
deliberately set out to run the quarantine and make his way into the fever district 
because it was time for fish to rise to his fly. 

Rod and reel, gun and field dogs are familiar objects in St. Augustine. Among 
the sporting dogs remembered by many quail hunters was the well known Bran. 
This dog was once, while hunting quail, struck by a rattlesnake. He was saved by 
the skillful treatment of Dr. H. Caruthers, but only to meet a fate as harsh, for Bran 
perished in the flames where he was chained in the great St. Augustine Hotel fire of 
1887. The smoking room of the Ponce de Leon Hotel counts among its ornaments a 
magnificent set of antlers, which bear testimony to the luck of a Tarrytown. New 
York, physician, to whom is credited the unusual experience of having brought down 
his deer, on an Adirondack runway, with a shotgun, loaded with No. 4 shot for 
grouse. Florida deer are of smaller size than the northern deer, but they are built to 
go just as fast. 

The unlovely alligator is represented at St. Augustine chiefly in infantile stages 
of discouraged development in the curiosity shops, waiting to be done up in segar 
boxes and mailed to the north. Wilder and more ferocious specmiens are occasion- 
ally encountered in adjacent waters. The alligator holds on with most commendable 
tenacity, despite the fact that every man's hand is against him, and always has been 
against him, if we are to credit Le Moyne, who came here with the French in 1563. 

In the Brevis A'arratio is given a drawing of the native Florida mode of hunting, and it is de- 
scribed as follows: They wage war on the crocodiles in this manner: By the bank of the river they 
build a little hut full of chinks and holes, in which is stationed a sentinel who can hear and see the 
crocodiles a great way of. Pressed by hunger they come up out of the water in search of prey, failing 
to find which they give forth a horrible roar that may be heard for half a mile. Then the sentinel calls 
the others who are ready; and ten or twelve of them, bearing a huge pole, hurry to intercept the 
gigantic monster (his jaws expanded to seize and swallow some one of them), and with great agility, 
holding the sharp end of the pole as high as possible, they plunge it into his maw, whence because of 
its roughness and the scaly bark he cannot eject it. Then turning the crocodile over on his back, they 
belabor his belly, which is softer, with clubs, and shoot arrows into it and open it; the back is impen- 



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etrable because of the hard scales, the more so if it be an old one. This is the Indians' way of hunt- 
ing crocodiles, to whom they are such inveterate foes that night and day they are on the watch for them, 
not less than we for our most hostile enemies. 

According to the artist's delineations of the mammoth specimens found here in 
those good old times, three himdred years ago, their descendants are certainly a sorry 
and degenerate race. lUit no oiil- was ever heard to t^onipkiin of the small i)r()por- 
tions of an alligator he hatl killed; they are all huge and savage in the telling; it 
takes a very small saurian to make a big story; and men are living to-day who 
could give Le Moyne points on Florida alligators. 



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INDI.VN .MODE OF HUNTING ALLIC-VTORS IN FLORIDA. 
Prom Le Moym's Narrative of the French Expedition in 1563. 

The list ot fishes taken in the vicinity is a generous one. Sheepshead are caught 
off the St. Sebastian bridge, from the docks, and wherever there are submerged 
timbers or rocks. Favorite fishing grounds are at Matanzas. Baits u.sed: clam, crab, 
fiddler, conch; the best time for fishing is from half- flood to high water. The whit- 
ing is baited for with clam, crab or pieces of mullet or other fish. Sea bass, or channel 
bass (also called redfish), are in great abundance in summer, and in fair supply in 
spring, when they are caught in the surf with rod or hand-line. The rods are employed 
chiefly by anglers from abroad. The local method is for the fisherman to wade out 
into the surf, having his line coiled to run freely from his left hand, then, swinging 
bait and sinker around his head, he hurls it out into the surf, and, when he hooks a 
fi.sh, pii^s the line over his shoulder and runs at full .speed up the beach, hauling 



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fisli high and dry after him. This mode may not partake of the high art of anghng, 
but it is pursued with enthusiasm, and the worst that can be said about it is that to 
stand for hours up to one's hips in the ocean is in March or April conducive to rheu- 
matism. The bait for bass is shrimp, crab or mullet. Salt-water trout are caught in 
great abundance in the Matanzas and its tributary waters north of town; and in the 
St. Sebastian from the bridge and the wharves. They take the fly; baits used are 
shrimps and mullet. Other varieties found here comprise blackfish, flounder, red 

snapper, black grouper, 
cavalli or crevalle, sailor's 
choice or hogfish, croaker, 
black grunt, skipjack or 
young bluefish, and jewfish 
which attain a weight of 200 
and 300 lbs. The water ver- 
min include sharks, catfish, 
garfish, angelfish, rays, or 
skates, toadfish and like un- 
pleasing forms of creation. 
Some one or the other of 
them is sure to turn up on 
the end of a line cast for 
nobler fish; and the "patient 
angler" who manifests his 
patience in waiting for a 
bite is a very ordinary indi- 
vidual compared with the 
angelic being who can pre- 
serve his equanimity when a 
shark makes way with his 
tackle, or his expectant gaze 
is greeted by the open coun- 
tenance of skate or toadfish. 
Drum fishing grounds are at 
Moultrie, five miles below 
town, and at certain local- 
ities known to the market 
risherman in the North River. The drumfish is distinguished as a fish that may be 
fished for longer without a bite than any other game fish that swims. 

It was time for drumming, tlie magic hour between ti'.e fall of the ebb and the rise of the flood, 
for this delightful sport, whose praises and superior enchantments over all others in ths Walton lins T 
had so often heard spoken with such rapture by the mouth of a North Island and Beaufort man; the 
noble nature of the fish, his size and strength — th slow approach which he makes at first te the hook, 
like a crab, then the sudden overwhelming transport- that comes over you when you feel him dashinjr 
boldly off with the line, threatening to drag you after him and upset your frail boat. How charming 
his resisting wait, comparable only to the intoxication and gentle rapture one experiences when pulling 
along a lass through a Virginia reel. — " Ske/ih of Stiniiiole JVar' (1836). 




KNOWS WHERE TO OO FISHIN', 
From fhe Forest and Stream. 



THE EAST COAST 








EVOND St. Augustine, going by the East Coast line, one finds 
little to interest him in the monotonous stretch of piny llat- 
woods and palmetto scrub, until at the distance of about fifty 

And now the scene 



s-iVi miles the road deflects to Ormond. 

""'»- changes. A new Florida begins, as unlike the dreary, 
sandy flatwoods as they are unlike the rolling hill and lake 

country. Ormond is situated on the Halifax River, and also on 
the Atlantic beach^ the two being separated by a peninsula a half-mile wide. The 
Halifax belongs to that system of inland waters which are more properly termed 
lagoons. They are fed by inlets from the sea and extend from a little below St. 
Augustine to Lake Worth. These lagoons, commonly known as the Indian River, 
make a continuous stretch of the loveliest water 
scenery for more than 250 miles, and when Bis- 
cayne Bay shall be united with Lake Worth, an 
uninterrupted water excursion of 350 niiles will 
combine more of fascinating variety and beauty 
than any other in the United States. These con- 
nected inland waters vary from weird and twisting 
narrows 100 feet in width, to spreading lake-like 
expanses from three to six miles wide. Sometimes 
they look out of inlets upon the ocean, and again 
into the mouths of wimiing creeks or fresh-water 
rivers that break the western shore. At one point 
the Indian River channels separate and wind tor- 
tuously among wooded islands, making one think 
of the lochs of Scotland. Nearly all the way the 
banks on both sides are high, commanding the 
river from elevated bluffs, or gently sloping to the 
stream, and finely situated for the towns or isolated 
residences, which are already scattered all along 
the East Coast and fast increasing in number. 
The population is of the very best, comprising 
representatives of many of the chief cities of the 
United States, a considerable number of well-to-do 
Englishmen, and some from Canada. There is no 
section of the country at large that combines more 
of the enterprising, intelligent, industrious and 
thrifty classes, and many of them wealthy enough 
to push their opportunities to the best advantage. 
It being impossible to describe particularly all 
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which are designated on the map of the East Coast Railway, let a few prominent 
instances suffice to indicate the peculiar features and remarkable attractions of the 
East Coast. Ormond is the first town struck by the railway after leaving St. Augus- 
tine. For the enjoyment of the tourist Ormond affords a combination of attractions 
second to none on the East Coast. From the Hotel Ormond, fronting the Halifax, 
one looks across the wide river to the beautiful village that skirts the western shore. 
The river is about as wide as the lower Hudson, and looks as majestic, although but 
a shallow lagoon. It is deep enough, however, for steamboats of light draft, and 
populous with all kinds of pleasure craft. The long bridge across the Halifax is a 
favorite resort of skilled fishermen. Fish of many varieties are abundant, among 
them the speckled sea trout, channel bass, cavaile, sheepshead and fresh-water black 

bass in Tomoka River. Sea 
bass weighing from twenty to 
forty pounds are caught in the 
Atlantic surf. Immense turtles, 
able to carry a man standing 
on tlieir backs, as they go back 
to the sea from their nests on 
the beach, are plenty in the 
spring season. Bears are often 
Seen on moonlight nights com- 
ing out of the scrub to hunt 
the turtle eggs, which are laid 
from eighty to a hundred in 
each nest. The eggs are also 
used to flavor the Hotel Co- 
quina muffins ; and nothing is 
more delicate and appetizing 
than the flavor of coquina 
soup, made from the living 
shellfish {Donates) that are 
swept up the beach in great 
quantities. Ormond abounds 
in game. Ducks are plenty in 
the headwaters of the Halifax, 
(juail in the fields and flat- 
woods ; also wild turkeys and 
deer and not infrequently 
bear's meat are brought into 
the Ormond market. 

The Ormond climate is of 
that medium quality which per- 
mits one t;) come in October 
SENTINEL PAEMETTOEs. and Stay Until the enel of May. 





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COOL'INA SHELL STUNL. 



The walks in ?11 directions are singularly attractive, 

"s bemg either shelled or planked over sandy spots, 

and provided with numerous rustic seats and 

arbors along the shaded river banks or 

through the trails across the half-mile 

peninsula that connects the river with 

the ocean. 

Ormond is famous for its drives and 

its bicycle paths and beaches. It has 

r-" •,.- . \ J i 7" ^ 2 ''/' V«l " ' ^^^^ advantage of unfailing marl pits, 

which supply the best material for 
roads, smooth and hard as concrete, 
and this is supplemented by great de- 
posits of shell wliich lie along the river. 
There is no finer beach anywhere on 
the Atlantic shore than at Ormond. It 
is 250 feet wide at mean tide, and ex- 
tends for many miles up and down the coast. It is lively with all sorts of pleasure 
carriages, bicycles and bathers, not to speak of the annual tournament when the cow- 
boys of the interior come in to compete in equestrian sports with the horsemen of 
the coast. The six-horse tally-ho hardly leaves a mark on the smooth surface of this 
mao-nificent beach. It is attractive also in the variety of beautiful shells that are 
swept up by the high tides. 

The Ormond drives extend also for many miles up and down the high and 
wooded banks of the river through a great wealth of forest trees, flowering shrubs 
and creepers. Vistas of the blue water peep out on the one side, and orange groves 
gleam with golden fruit on 
the other. The drives out 
into the hammocks lying 
directly back of Ormond 
are, if possible, still more 
charming. They thread 
magnificent forests of huge 
live oaks, sprawling their 
crooked giant branches all 
abroad and draped with 
long, swaying pendants of 
grav moss. In close prox- 
imity and as if in rivalry, 
i m m e n s e magnolias lift 
themselves taller even than 
the oaks. Hard by stand 
the graceful water oaks, and 
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THE HALIFAX RIVER SHORE. 



the palmetto palms; and all this lavish luxuriance of richly colored foliage is tangled 
with giant creepers, climbing lustily to the very tree tops. In the deep green recesses 
of these rich hammocks, so utterly diverse from the flatwoods that skirt the railways, 
you come upon ruins of ancient chimneys and other appurtenances of old-time sugar 
mills and causeways, built over intervening marshes to connect the great plantations 
that oiice were worked at large cost of slave labor. These fertile hammocks of deep, 
black soil extend many miles to the southward parallel with the Halifax, and were 
probably in some far back century the bed of a lagoon similar to the present river. 
(3n these rich, muckv lands are planted some of the finest orange groves in Morida. 

The greatest single attraction of Ormond is the Tomoka River, once the chosen 
resort (-f the Tomoka ti"il)e of Indians. They had the best reasons for their choice. 
Black bass from three to six pounds in weiglit abound in its deep still waters, and red 
bass are taken near its mouth. Its high wooded bluffs afford dry and picturesque 
camping grounds. Not so much of a curiosity as tiie Oklawaha twisting its weird 
and narrow way through gloomy cypresses, it is yet far mcn-e beautiful and accessible. 
Only six niiits from the Ormond bridge, and but ten miles long, it can easily be 
reached either by carriage or boat. 

Daytona, twenty miles to south of Ormond, occupies an elevated hammock site 
on a circling arm of the Halifax, whence it looks out upon a bay of singular beauty. 
The natural attraf^tions are many — a clean, hard river shore, shady drives amid oaks 
and palmettoes, and on the ocean side of the i)eninsula the well-named Silver Beach. 
Daytona is the chosen winter residence of many wealthy families from the North, who 
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New Smyrna, three miles further south, on the Hillsborough River, is the old- 
est settkinent on the East Coast south of St. Augustine ; and is historically famous 
for tiie Creek and Minorcan colony, 1.500 strong, established by Dr. Turnbull in 
1767. TurnbuH's "castle" or ''palace," with its si.xteen chimneys, stood on the high 
and vast shell inouiul which connnantls the whole adjacent region. It was i)artly 
destroyed by the Semint)le Indians, who drove out the sugar planters and captured 
nianv of tluir slaves. Afterward it became a target for Admiral Du Pont's fleet, 
which more coinpletelv dc'inolished it during the Civil ^^'ar, leaving, however, the 
grandly solid walls of the old cellar and the capacious wells to indicate its palatial 
extent. All along the river bank for four miles north and three miles south are scat- 
tered the ruins of old Minorcan houses, with coquina stone floors, chimneys and wells 
curbed with hewn stone. The drainage canals, indigo vats and ruins of old sugar 
mills indicate large industries. One of the canals still in use, and dug about 127 
years ago, is twenty-two feet deep and live feet wide. It extends several miles, and 
must have employed an immense amount of hard labor. See note of the Minorcans 
on page 14. A comprehensive and sympathetic chapter of Old St. Augustine is 
devoted to these New Smyrna experiences of the unhapjiy colonists. Not less 
interesting here also are the ancient ruins of a Spanish dynasty which antedated 
the English possession. The "Rock House," a stately ruin with thick walls and 




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well preserved chimney and fireplace, and situated on a high bluff, commands a 
magnificent view of the inlet and ocean anil all the surrounding region. A large 
cedar stands in the middle of one of the rooms. It is probably one of the oldest 
structures in the United States. It might have been a military outpost, or a mission 
house, as is indicated by a niche in the wall. 

A much more extensive and imposing ruin lies out in an old field a little way 
west of the town, which has until lately been designated as the "Sugar House." It 
was undoubtedly used for this purpose, but the ecclesiastical lines of its foundations, 
and the architectural symmetry and beauty of its walls and arches, plainly indicate an 
earlier religious origin as the seat of a Spanish mission. 

New Smyrna is well worth visiting on its own account, for its hammock and 
water scenery and beach. Mr. W. E. Connor, of New York, owns a beautiful winter 
residence here, with elegant surroundings. Mr. Pierre Lorillard makes New Smyrna 
the winter rendezvous of his house boat and yachts. The Indian River water system, 
including the Halifa.x and Hillsborough, Lake Worth and Biscayne Bay, is becoming 
more and more from year to year the abode of ample house boats and pleasure craft 
of all descriptions. The fishing here and at Mosquito Inlet has long been famous. 

From New Smyrna a branch line of the Florida East Coast Railway System runs 
to Blue Spring, on the St. John's River, thirty-two miles west. This is the route to 
De Land and to Lake Helen, a resort of established reputation for the curative 
properties of its natural conditions in cases of pulmonary complaints. 




THE CRACKFKS' HOME. 



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l)K I'l.NKAI'ri.K III.I.D. 



Passing down the coast, we traverse the famous orange belt of tlie Indian Rivt-r. 
A little below New Smyrna was discovered, ninety years ago, the original grove of 
wild sweet oranges, from which buds have been carried all over the State. 

Rockledge is nanunl from the bold coquina ledges whith KmuI a picturesque 
beauty to the shore line. Tlu' foot walk for several miles on the high river bank, 
leading through one s[-)lenditl orange grove to another and past elegant mansions, is 
very fascinating. There is a grand outlook across the river to Merritt's Island, 
which is also populous with villas, groves and gaixlens. The packing houses from 
which railways carry the orange cars to the piers, from which the fruit steamers pick 
them ui), the sail boats and rowboats, often manned by young ladies who feather their 
oars with sailor-like precision, the pedestrian parties one continually meets on the 
river [)ath. the well-contented occupants of the elegant mansions that front the river 
adjoining on their broad verandas, the dolcc far )nciitc leisure of the Rockledge winter 
resident, the orange pickers amid the golden fruit, and the skilled landscape garden- 
ing that emblazons the walks and grounds of the hotels with brilliant tropical flowers, 
all unite to make Rockledge deservedly and permanently ]iopular with wintertourists. 

Leaving Rockledge, about twenty miles further down the river we enter the 
pineapple region at Eau Gallic and Melbourne, which are adjacent to each other, 
and connected as the l{,ast Coast points a;e all along by an almost continuous line of 
settlements fronting the Indian River on both sides, and at the same time within 
hearing of the Atlantic surf. ICither Eau (lallie or Melbourne is a good place at 



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which to study the pineapple culture. This section, extending from Cape Canaveral 
to Bay Biscayne, is the only one on the Florida mainland where the climate, which is 
the main thing, is suitable for the permanent and profitable cultivation of the pine- 
apple out of doors. In this pineapple belt is also found the only suitable land for 
out-of-door and unprotected culture, while very much of it is entirely unsuited for 
pineapples. 

Fort Pierce is to be noted as a winter resort much visited by sportsmen, for 
whose comfort and requirements special provision is here made. Back of Fort 
Pierce is the home of one branch of the Semmole Indians, and they may here often 
be seen trading their alligator skins, plumes and game for ammunition and supplies. 

Lake Worth and Palm Beach. — Southward loo miles from Melbourne is Palm 
Beach, on Lake ^^'orth. Here we enter the cocoanut region and the tropical paradise 
of Florida Lake Worth is a salt-water lagoon like tlie other waters of the Indian 
River system, twenty-two miles long by an average of a mile in width, and separated 
from the Atlantic Ocean by a peninsula of rich hammock and marsh about a mile 
wide. Here is situated the Royal Poinciana, one of the largest hotels in the world, 
and royal indeed in respect both of its entirely unique surroundings and its magnifi- 
cent appointments. Fronting the beautiful lake and commanding also the ocean 
view, it has the peculiar advantage of a lordly grove of cocoanut palms and the finest 
environments of tropical gardening already prepared at lavish cost by a former pro- 
prietor of the site. The magnificent hotel does not stand alone in respect ot such 




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\ lAlM HK.\( II (>l TM»OK ON L.VKK WOKIll. 



environments. For several miles along the lake front range other beautiful and 
highly improved estates with simitar adornments of cocoanut palms and a great 
variety of otluM" tropiial llora. 

It is quite impossible to give any adecpiate description of the peculiar and un- 
paralleled attractions of Lake Worth. It is unlike any other part of this vcrv unicpie 
and dissimil.ir State of Florida. Lake Worth, writes a correspondent of Forest ami 
Stream, is a salt-water lagoon, about twenty-two miles long and one mile wide, 
formed by the ocean receding and forming a narrow ridge of sand, now about one 
mile wide at Us widest part. It is connected with the sea by a shallow inlet at its 
northern end, through which the tide ebbs and Hows. The channel in the lake is 200 
or 300 feet wide, with water 6 to 8 feet deep, decreasing very much in depth at the 
southern half of the lake. 

The climate is very greatly influenced and tempered both in winter and summer 
by the Gulf Stream, which passes close to the shore at this point. The normal winter 
temperature is about 70 to 75 (S.'^'g., falling to 40 deg. under the influence of ''cold 




AT PALM BEACH. 
The Bicycle Path along Lake Worth 

northers," and probably once a winter the very tender leaves of the banana trees will 
be lightly touched by frost or affected by the low temperature. 

The scenery of this section is entirely tropical, the native palmetto palm, with its 
bunchy, plumelike top, being very conspicuous above the other foliage ; with numer- 
ous cocoanut palms, in the vicinity of each settlement, lifting their graceful fronds 
above, entirely different from any other foliage. Behind these are frequently seen 
those red and golden tropical sunsets where everything is still ; the smoke, rising 
from a coctage chimney while the evening meal is being prepared, apparently stands 
up in a straight, perpendicular line, with definite and sharp edges, until it vanishes 
50 feet above — a synonym of silence. To this tropical foliage and scenery must be 
added at day dawn the songs of mockingbirds, robins and catbirds, numbers of red- 
birds, crested woodpeckers and other birds common to the North, which are also 
enjoying the climate. At night the whippoorwills keep up a continuous condemna- 
tion of poor William. Almost any day the strange and apparently awkward-looking 
pelicans may be seen feeding in the lake, and flamingoes in line on the sandbars. 

On a strip of sand, one mile wide, between the lake and the ocean for about five 
miles of its length, are located the extensive tropical gardens, costly mansions and 
tasteful cottages of the Northerners, come hither to enjoy si.x winter months of ideal 
out-of-door existence. 

Tropical plants and trees from all parts of the world are gathered here. Walks 
shaded by groves of cocoanut palms are laid out in geometrical patterns, bordered 
with concrete curbs, and with lawns protected by curved sea-walls of concrete and 



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coquina on the lake front. Oleanders, hybiscus and passion flowers are in bloom. 
Mangoes, giiavas, limes, k-nions, oranges, figs, sa|)pa<lillas, date palms, bananas, pine- 
api^les and early vegetabk-s are ooniinon in all the gardens; some have strawberries 
rijie in February, and tomatoes in abundance in March. Rubber trees, royal poinciana, 
paradise, coffee, traveler's and numbers ot curious trees ornament the gardens, and 
the gnarled, straggling arms of great live oaks, covered with knobs and bunches of 
two varieties of orchids and hanging moss, by weird contrast add to the beauties. 
^^'alks 20 feet wide and one mile long, bordered with cocoanut palms, oleanders 
and azaleas, lead from the lake front, where an- located all the residences antl hotels, 
to the ocean front, which is almost a perpendicular bluff from 10 to 15 feet in height, 
with a steep and narrow bi-ach of crushed shells and a little sand, uiion which with a 
magnificent surf the ocean breaks, in color a clear, bright, ultramarine blue, entirely 
different from the dull green color of the ocean on the New jersev coast. 

()n the western shore of the lake are lai'ge |)niea[i|)h- [plantations, each year 
increasing in uumbi-rs and in [iroihution, Thirtv nnles to the west is Lake ( )kecho- 
bee, with settlements of the Seminole Indians, of whom some notes are given or. 
another page. Lake Worth and its vicinitv, like all the southein Last Coast country, 
has dexeloped rapidly since tlu' advent of the railway, whLh has converted it from a 
region secluded because diffic:uU of access, and has put it in cpiick touch with the 
rest of the world. 






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EAST COAST DISTANCES 

VIA THE East Coast railway 

Jacksonville l": Miles. 

St. Augustiiii; 36.4 

Palatka 64.1 

Orniond 104 7 

Holly Hill 107.0 

Daytona ... log 7 

Blake 112 S 

t'ort Orange i'4-7 

Savage. 116. i 

Spruce Creek 'i9-3 

■J urnbiill Hay i2i-3 

New Smyrna 124.6 

Lake Helen 1451 

Hawks Park 127.1 

Hucomer '309 

Oak ri II ij6.4 

I'ilusville '54-4 

City Point '69.3 

Rockledge '75 4 

Eau Oallie 1S9 8 

Melbourne 194-2 

Malaliar >99 9 

Micco 208 6 

Sebastian 2145 

St. Lucie 238.6 

Fort Pierce 241.5 

Jensen 256 7 

Stuart 260.6 

.■\licia . 265 6 

H'Mie Sound 2766 

\Vest Jupiter 282.8 

Kiviera 235.3 

West Palm Beach 299 5 

Royal Poinciana 3000 

Palm Beach Inn 3004 

Lantana 308 4 

Fort Lauderdale 34'° 

Piscayne :i';8.3 

Miami 366.0 

Nass.iu ... 5090 

Key West 521.0 



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Nearly all the sea fish are found in the lake, such as bluefish, spotted sea trout, 
cavalle, retl snapper, barracuda, pompano, sawfish, mullet and retlfish, or channel 
bass. Tarpon are not found h'^re, although they are caught north and south of this 
point. The principal fishing is outside the inlet for kingfish, of which enormous 
catches are recorded. The kingfish is very game and the fishing with its surround- 
ings is a favorite amusement. There are numerous boats with experienced men to 
handle them and having thorough knowledge of the grounds. 

The Hotel Royal Poinciana takes its name from the beautiful royal poinciana 
Ute [Poiiicia/hi rcgia), which abounds here, and which is famed for the blazing 
brilliance of its midsummer bloom. The hotel occupies the site where stood Mr. R. 
R. McCormick's house, in the midst of a garden enriched with rare plants and shrubs 
and trees, brought hither from every quarter of the globe. The buikling is in the 
Colonial style, six stories in height, and surmounted by a tower from which the view 
commands both the lake and the ocean. Although the Royal Poinciana is the largest 
hotel in the South, it proved the first season it was open ciuite inadequate to accom- 
modate the demands of the public, and a second hotel of the East Coast system has 
been provided here in the Palm Teach Inn, facing the ocean. The Beach Pavilion 
should have mention ; it is to the Royal Poinciana what the Casino is to the Ponce 
de Leon. There are here immense swimming pools of sea water and sulphur water. 
Surf bathing is enjoyable at Palm Beach the year around. Favorite walks and bicycle 
routes are to the Cragin Place, two miles north, and the Rubber Tree, two miles 
south; Lake Worth village, the pineapple plantations and cocoanut groves. There 
are everywhere alluring opportunities for wheelmen and wheelwomen, on roads as 
straight as Fifth Avenue, lined on either side with palmettoes ; on garden walks wind- 
ing amiil curious forms of tropical vegetation and beneath graceful arches of cocoa 
palms ; by the curving shore of Lake Worth; and for miles and miles along the ocean 
front, with a beach hard and smooth as asphalt, and an outlook abroad over the sea 
illimitable, where as the wheel speeds, so light and swift, or.e seems to have caught 
the seabird's freedom and power and speed. 'Phis is indeed the cyclist's winter home. 




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WHERE THE MOCKINGBIRD SINGS, 
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A PALM liKACH AVEMIF. 



Among the sails the most interesting perhaps is to 
Pitt's Island, on Lake Worth. Something of the won- 
derful nature of the tropical vegetation that everywhere 
charms the eye is indicated in this description of the 
island given by a correspondent of the Springfield Re- 
publican : "It is worth the journey from the North to 
see the great sprawling sea grape tree, with broad round 
lilypad mottled leaf of green and red, tumbling and 
prancing around in the queerest jerks and contortions, 
now running its huge branches along the ground, then 
springing up and forward with a leap, and then suddenly 
making a backward turn, cavorting and somersaulting 
in all imaginable and unthought-of twistings. But 
queerer still, and more utterly wayward, is the rubber 
banyan, with its smooth, elephant-gray bark and long glossy leaves. It just capers 
and leaps in its luxuriant capacities for rapid and giant growth. When it has shot 
forth a branch to an amazing length almost horizontally from the parent trunk, it 
drops a string-like pendajit, rav.el-ed out at the end, which sways awhile in the air; 
but give it time and it will reach the ground, .and tits vrave'led fibers will take root and 
soon become a snxooth, round trunk. This will often unite itself with other pendants, 
and, the fissures by and by disappearing, they together become a wide, smooth, nar- 
row iriass like a great elongated screen. I saw one or these huge banyans engaged 
in deadly contest with a large mastic tree, the wood of which is solid and tough like 
ebony. It was so far a drawn game. 'I'he banyan had clasped the mastic and wound 
and twisted about it like the serpents about Laocoon, till it seemed as if it must be 
stifled, when lo ! the mastic finds its chance and shoots out and up in towering 
strength 50 feet into the air. Space fails ox\^ to tell of the foliage plants of brilliant 
red, yellow and purple, 10 
feet high, of the flaming, 
broad-leaved hybiscus ; the 
royal and magnificent poin- 
ciana, a gorgeous flowering- 
tree ; of the moon flowers ^^ 
and the morning glories, ^, 
creeping everywhere at their '#^ 
own sweet will ; of the white 
and red oleanders, 20 feet 
high and spreading an equal 
wiilth. Here indeed is Floridii 
in its own unquestioned right 
— the land of flowers." The 
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Palm ]]each owes to a shipwreck the cocoanut trees whicli have given to it 
its distinguishing beauty antl its name. Years ago the cocoanut-laden Spanish brig 
Providencia was cast away olT tliis coast, and the cocoanuts were washed ashore to 
fmd a congenial soil. 'I'here was cjuite as much romance in the coming of the date 
palm lo Florida ; from ."-^yiia the concjuf^ring Moors carried it to Spain ; and from 
Spain the Spaniards brought it here. The sago, fan, royal and other palms have been 
introtluced. The palms intligenous to Plorida include the low saw or scrub pal- 
metto, which covers vast areas of the State ; and the cabbage palmetto, so called be- 
cause of the cabbage-like growth, which is edible. There are other palms on the Ke\ ■-. 




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The Seminole Indians are seen at various points on the East Coast from Fort 
Pierce south to Biscayne Bay. They are the survivors in Florida of a tribe which 
once engaged the anxious attention of the entire country. In 1835 disputes over the 
boundaries of the Indian reservations and quarrels over fugitive slaves, which the 
Seminoles were accused of harboring, led to the Seminole War — the most costly and 
disastrous of the minor wars of the United States. At the end of seven years, in 
1842. the Indians were subdued, captured and transported to the reservation 

assigned them, where the remnant yet re- 
main in the Indian Territory. A por- 
tion of the tribe evaded deportation and 
betook themselves to this Southern coun- 
try. They hid in the wilderness Ever- 
glades and still remain in tacit rebellion, 
and regard the white man with suspicious 
enmity. How many there are is doubt- 
ful, for the census taker, in common with 
other Government officials, ignores them, 
and they are decidedly averse to enlight- 
ening the public on this point or any 
other. The guesses about their popula- 
tion vary from 300 to 1,000. One of the 
most competent observers. Colonel J. E. 
Ingraham, puts it at about 300. They are 
without doubt increasing in number and 
their general condition is improving. 
While one nation, they are divided into 
three tribes — the Big Cypress, Co^" Creek 
and Miamis. The Big Cypress Indians 
live in the vicinity of Fort Myers, between 
Caloosahatchee River and the Gulf of 
Mexico ; the Miamis live back of Miami, 
on Biscayne Bay ; and the Cow Creeks 
are situated back of YoxX. Pierce and the 
St. Lucie River» which emi)ties into the 
Indian River. Tliey have no reservation, 
no land has ever been assigned them by 
the Government. Their dwellings are 
palmetto huts and framed houses ; they 
have horses, dogs, pigs and cattle ; and 
raise corn, sweet potatoes and other vege- 
tables. Flour or starch made from the 
coontie or wild cassava has always been a 
BILLY BOW LE(,s — A SEMINOLE OK To-D.w. Staple artlcle of food. The Florida In- 

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tive days ; note the corn and 
other vegetables in the draw- 
ings of Le Moyne, who came 
to Florida with the French 
expedition of 1563. 

The dress of the men con- 
sists of a turban of folded 
shawls or handkerchiefs and 
decorated with a plume, a 
calico shirt, usually of many 
colors, with a kerchief or 
(laval about the neck ; and, 
on occasion, leggins and moc- 
casins of tanned deerskin. 
The scalp-lock is carefully 
l)rotected. The I'lorida In- 
dian's fashion in head gear has not changed in general character in centuries. Compare 
the turban of Billy Bowlegs in 1897 with Osceola's in 1838 (page 47), and again with 
that of the chief Satourioua in 1563. The women wear their hair cut short in front 
and coiled behind. Their dress is a long skirt with short waist or jacket. The 
jacket is decorated with silver or gokl coins pounded thin and cut into various 
shapes. About the neck of the new-born girl is placed a necklace of beads ; others 
are added as she grows older, until the mature woman is fairly burdened beneath the 




ANCIENT Kl.OKUJ.V INDIAN COS 11' Ml- 
From a drawing by Le Moyne in 1563. 




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weight of her necklaces ; and then with the coming of old age they are gradually 
discarded. The women are skillful with the needle; some have sewing machinefe- 
The Indian canoe is a dugout of cypress ; it is propelled by sail or push-pole. 
In these craft the hunters go to sea to harpoon manatee. The Seminole depends 
largely upon the chase ; he is equipped with the latest models of shotgun and rifle 
and is an expert shot. These Indians shoot from hip or elbow without sighting/ 
There were brought in to Fort Lauderdale in 1896, by the beminoles for barter, 5,000 




FLORIDA INDIANS CARRYING THEIR CROPS TO THE STOREHOUSES. 
Fro.-n a drawing by th'j French artist Lc Moyne in 1563. 



alligator skins ; the number killed by the Indians in the State that year probably 
exceeded 7,000. 

Once a year, in the last of June or the first of July, the people gather from far 
and near for the Green Corn Dance, an anniversary which has been observed from 
time immemorial. It is a time of coming to judgment, and the infliction of punish- 
ments, of feasting and making merry. At this time also the marriages take place. 
The custom followed is one of those survivals common among savage races of the 
old days when wives were taken by capture: the girl runs over a certain marked out 
course, and the man pursues; if he overtakes her — and whether he does or not depends 
altogether upon whether she wishes him to — they live happy ever after. 



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BAY lilSCAVM-: VArUT rilB HOI'SF AT mCOAM'T GROVE. 

hroin ''^J^'otest iiiai Siieaiii." 



From \\'est Palm I'fat'h ihf l*",ast ("oast Railway rxteiuls south to Miama. nii Bay 
Biscayne. Tlii^ is llu' soutlicrnmost railway point in tlu- I'niled States. IJisravne, a 
lay,'oon sheltered trom the .\thmtic by numerous keys and coral islands, is forty miles 
in breatlth and from five to ten miles wiile. with a prevailing' depth of from 6 to lo 
feet; the shores are liiu'd with palms and mangroves, and a profusion and varietv of 
tro|Mcal growth ; the hhu- water is of remarkable clearness. These elements unite to 
make the bay one of the most beautiful cruising grounds in the worUl; and many 
yachts have their winter rendezvous hei\\ ()n the wt-st shore, at L'ocoanut Grove, 
embowered amid cocoaiuits and royal [)alms, is the club house of the l^ay Biscavne 
Vacht Club, whose pennant bears the legend "25"-' North Lat. B. H. V. C." 

The water of the bay is of such crystal clearness that it reveals even to great 
depths the wealth of vegetable and animal life ever_\-where i")resent. This submarine 
life is a never-failing attraction ; there are portions of Bay Biscayne, notably the 
Turtle Harbor, which rival the far-famed sea gardens of Nassau 

About old l'"ort Dallas, at the mouth of the Miami River, there has sprung up as 
a creatHin of thi' railroad the town of Miami, with broad avenues, ])arks and rapitlly 
multiplying homes. Relics of the old fort still remain on the north bank of the river. 
Mrs. Julia 1 ). Tuttle, who owns the ground, has here the beautiful home pictured on 
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tiieir slender cocoamil palms, inakiny a picture wiiich is most attractive. Beautitul 
for situation also, on acijoiniuL;' grounds, is the Hotel Royal I'alm, facing diagonally 
the river and the bay, and commanding views of both, with far-.^tretching vistas of 
sand and key and coral reefs. 

I'he M iami River, which is the principal eastern drainage stream of the Everglades, 
at a i)()int four miles from Fort Dallas, narrowing in its bed and rushing in tumbling, 
swirling, foaming rapids over coral rock, presents a genuine novelty in this land 
of smooth-flowing waters. Arch Creek, another outlet of the Everglades, takes its 
name froni an arch of coral, fashioned by the attrition of centuries, which spans the 
stream and beneath which a boat mav pass. 

iiay liiscayne is the home of the green turtle, the tortoise-shell turtle and the occa- 
sional crocodile. The fishing is excellent. One favorite e.xcursion for kingfishing is 
Fowry Rock laght. The light was formerly on Cape Florida, where the abandoned 
brick lighthouse and keeper's home with its palms prompt the telling of the tragic 
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l^ut one day this place was not so peaceful as it luoi<eti liiat afternoon. Tlic light li<iuse kee[)er and 
his attendant, a negro, were attacked by the Seminole Indians many years ago, and jnst maiiagetl to 
escape into the brick tower vvliich rises fully 70 feet from the ground. Their house was looted and 
burned, but the stout door leading into the lighthouse held out against the Indians for twenty-four 
hours A tire kindled alongside tinally broke it in, and disclosed to the fiends a wooden staircase, 
which they of course dared not ascenil. With no water or food, the poor prisoners held out, having be- 
taken themselves to the very top of the tower. At first a faint odor of smoke, then black volumes 
curled up the stairway, and to their almost maddened senses came the realization that they were being 
smoked out. To appear at a window was almost certain death, for ihey were surrounded on all sides, 
and rifle balls crashing through the glass had repeatedly warned them of this other danger. The negrt> 
unable any longer to stand the intense heat and smoke, crawled out on the iron balcony about the light 
itself and was immediately shot dead. 'I'he keeper was now nearly crazed with suffering, for the flames 
had mounietl tcj the very entrance of his room, and the glass cracked and fell about him. As the smoke 
in huge cloutls burst out into the open air, he dragged his attendant on to the iron grating, and stretch- 
ing the boiiy flat he himself lay on top. To describe further the story as I heard it is awful. .Suftice 
to say, almost a day he lay there in a trance. When at last consciousness came he discovered that the 
Indians had gone. Unable to descend alone, he signaled to a boat which chanced to be passing and 
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KEY WHST. 

Key Wkst is rcaclK-(l froin Miami l)y stcainlxiats which make tri-wcekly trips. 
The daylight sail of 165 miles is amid the hdorida Keys, witli a diversity of island 
scenery which in itself well repays one for the excursinn. Key W'est (Spanish 
Cayo fhicso — Hone Ke\) is a low coral island 1\ in<;- sixty miles sontli of Cape Sable, 
and the town is the sonthermost cit\- in the I'nited States. I la\ana is only ninety 
miles sonth. The island here at the key of tlic < inlf is an important strategic point; 
it has one of the largest naval stations in the conntr\-. and is defended by Fort 
Tavlor. Not far to the westward, on ( iarden l\ey of the Dry Tortngas, is the 
great fortification of l*"ort jetTerson. 

The picturesque character of the island and tcnvn is indicated in our illustra- 
tion, looking from the grim battery of Fort Taylor to the curving shores with their 
palms. The cocoa and date palms grow in profusion; and the flora includes the 
royal poinciana: the sugar apple, whose fragrance fills the air; innnense banyans, 
one in the barrack yard covering an area of 50 feet; and gigantic cacti rising in 
stems 20 feet in the air. 

Key West is unlike an\ other part of idorida. The ])opulation is made up in 
equal parts of Bahamians, ('uhans. and negroes from Cuba antl Bahama. The 
llahamians, white and black, are called Conchs. either because they eat the shell- 
fish of that name, or because like conchs they have been washed ashore from the 
sea. It is a foreign people, and has its foreign speech, dress and ways. In the 
morning the milkman drives his cow from house to house, and milks her at the 




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door; in the evenini]^ men g-o througii the streets with milk cans, wlicnce is ladled 
green turtle soup. 

Cigar-making', sponging and wrecking are the industries. The Key West 
cigar trade has been created by the tarilT, which ])uts a high tax on cigars and a 
low tax on leaf tobacco, and admits Cuban laborers free. The custom house is 
the second in importance in the South; the building cost $100,000; the customs 
receipts in a recent vear were $11,000,000. 

Wrecking is less protitable than in former times, when the coast was not so 
well lighted. The wrecking smacks are manned by a crew of captain, mate, and 
four or five men. They receive no salary, but share in the salvage, which is divided 
into 40 shares, of which four shares go to the captain, two to the mate, one and one- 
half to the cook, one to each of the other men, and the remainder to the owners. 
The wreckers go from Key West to the harbor of ( iarden Key. in tlie Dry Tortu- 
gas, and there lie in wait for something to turn up. 

Key West is the port of the J^lorida sponge fisheries. The reef on which the 
sponges grow- extends from the southern extremity of the peninsula to St. Marks, 
on the West Coast; it begins at abotit six miles from the land and extends indefin- 
itelv into waters too deep to be worked; in area it covers 3,500 square miles. A 
sponging schooner is manned b} a crew of five men, and is e((uipped with two 
dingeys. Arrived at the reef, one man keeps ship, while tlie others, two in each 
dingey, gather the sponges; one sculls the boat; the other searches the ]:)ottom 



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with a sponj^e-glass. 'I'liis is in (.■iTccl a l)ucket witli a <;lass bottom, through which, 
when it is partialK sul)nKT^c'(l. one may see to a s^Teat depth. The sj^ongc is 
hrou.^'ht u]) l)y a hook on a ])ole. i he s])oni;es are spread on deck, and the gela- 
tinous matter decays. W'lien a gi\H'n ([uantity has been gathered the crew goes to 
hind, where the sponges are ])laced in crawls. tlu"ough whicli the tide ebbs and 
tlows. and in a wtek they are clean. The\- are then beaten frc'e of sand and grit, 
waslied. jjleacht'd in tlie sun. collectecl inl(t bunches of l\\ent\. and sold at auctinu. 

OTHHP. EAST COAST RESORTS. 

J.\CKSOX\'iT.T.K. on the St. Jolui's l\iver. t\\uit\-five miles from the sea. is the 
entering point for bdoricL'i from ihe north. It is the largest cit\- in the State, and 
the railway and steamship centre. .All trains arrive at and depart from the I'nion 
Passenger Station, thus a\()iding transfers. The I'dorida luist ("oast Line, the 
I'lorida Central iS: reninsuhu- i\ail\\a\-. Atlantic Coast Line and the Southern 
Rail\\a\ here connect. The Cl\(le Line steamships run to Charleston and Xew 
York, and tlie Cycle's St. John's I\i\-er steamers ascend the ri\-er to Sanford. the 
Beach iV .Miller Line to Crescent City, and tlie I ndependtMit Line lo bickson\ille. 
whicli has always been i)(t])ular as a toiu'ist resort, and ample pro\i>ion is made for 
the comfort of visitors. It has well ])a\ed streets, shaded 1)\ li\e oaks and other 
foliage trees, and there are many pleasant drixes in the suburbs. 

Till-: .S|-. John's Ri\i-:k. — The tourist will hardly be satisfied with the glimpses 
of this noble stream obtained from the car window as tlu' train crosses it at Jack- 
sonville or Talatka, but will ])lan an excursion b\ steamboat, in which wav alone 
the picturescpie features of the rixxi- ma\ be seen. Tlie lowei" ])ortions of the St. 
John's are a succession of magnihcent reaches, or inland seas, the shores lined 
with forests of li\-e oak. sweet gum. jjiiic. magnolia an.d i)alniettos. In its upper 
(sotuhern) ])ortion the \-egetation becoiiKs more tropical; the ri\er now narrows 
to a tortuous ])assage and again opens into beautiful lake's, and the trax'cler is 
charmed with the no\-el scener\ and tlu' changing ])anorania. 

.Mac.xoi.i \ ScKi .\(;>. situated on the .St. John's l\i\er. tw enty-eight luiles south 
of Jacksonville, reached b\ the Jacksoiuille. ram])a tS: l\e\ West Railroad, or by 
ri\er steamers, is one of the older tourist resorts. It won its fame in the old davs 
before the im])ro\e(l means of travel had lured so many to the new regions further 
south; but its attractions are as strong to-day as ever before for visitors who have 
once looked out over the noble reaches of the river from the shaded banks of mag- 
nolia. The St. John's River at this i)oint broadens out into a sheet of water three 
miles wide. ha\ing nnich the appearance of a lake, which, together with the numer- 
ous creeks, furnishes abundant op])ortunit\ for boating. The .Magnolia tennis 
Courts have been the scene of some of the most successful ttnirnaments held in the 
South; and the golf links, of nine lioks. rank as among the most attractive in 
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THE ST. JOHN S AT .MAGNOLIA SPRINGS. 



Springs takes its name froni a magnifieent spring, whose waters, besides being 
remarkable for their purit\- and excellence as table waters, have well attested 
therapeutic qualities, especially in rheumatic affections. (3ne of the favorite walks 
from Magnolia is St. David's Path, or Lovers' Lane (every well ordered resort in 
Florida has a Lovers' Lane), wdiich leads for a mile and a half along the forested 
banks of the St. John's to Green Cove Springs. 

Green Cove Springs, on the St. John's, 29 miles from Jacksonville, was one 
of the first resorts of Florida to gain popularity. It takes its name from the famous 
sulphur springs, which are of established therapeutic value. The town is noted 
for beautiful situation, parks, avenues, and a large number of handsome winter 
residences. 

Palatka. on the St. John's River, twenty-eight miles from St. Augustine, 
via the East Coast Railway, and fifty-six miles from Jacksonville, is an attractive 
and flourishing city in the midst of the orange country. 

Orange and lemon groves cover the surrounding country, and the walks and 
drives in all directions are romantic and beautiful. A new shell road extends from 
Palatka to Peniel, and there are other fine drives in the vicinity. Rowboats and 
small steamers can be leased for excursions to neighboring orange groves, and 
for bass fishing on the St. John's River, and up Rice, Dunn's and other creeks. 
The sportsman will find good duck shooting on the St. John's and quail shooting 
in the vicinity of Palatka. The city is the point of departure for the Ocklawaha 
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The Ocklawatta Tvtvf.r Totr afl'ords a revelation of some of the wildest and 
most novel scenerv in the State, and an experienee never to be forgotten. The 
river is navigated bv the steamers of the Consolidated Oeklawaha River Lines, 
from Palatka and Silver Springs daily except Sunday, railroad connection being 
made at each of these points. The steamer from Silver Springs gives the day trip, 
and tliat from Palatka tlie night trip. The steamboats are lighted on their way 
through the night by search-lights, and the excursion is one wliich remains in 
memorv as the weirdest experience of a lifetime. Tlie stream is narrow and ex- 
tremelv tortuous, and is over-arched by giant oaks, magnolias, palmettoes. cypress, 
bay and other trees, all festooned witli "Spanish moss" in profusion. The effect 
by daylight is novel and fascinating, and by night it is fantastic, mysterious and 
bewildering l)eyon<l description. Silver Springs is a circular basin. 600 feet in 
<liameter, of water of wonderful clearness, which bursts up in a great flood from 
a depth of 65 feet in such volumes as to form the navigable river by which the 
steaml)oat has entered the s])ring. So clear is the spring that from a boat the 
smallest objects can be seen at the bottom, and a nail may be watched all the way 
as it goes down, turning and darting in erratic course. 

The Halifax anl^ Indian Ri\i:k TcnjR. — A ])o])ular excursion is thai on 
the Halifax and Indian rivers and into the Lake Worth region. The route is to 
Ormond or Daytona. on the 1 iaiil'ax. at either one of which ])oiuts the tourist may 
board the elegant steamers of the Indian River and i'>ay liiscayne Steamboat 
Co.'s line for the sail, full of interest, to New Smyrna (known in history as the 
scene of the Minorcan settlement in Ih-itish times), thence through the Haulover 
canal (a passageway cut through the solid coquina rock) into the famed Indian 
River, and on to Titusville. Rockledge, with its villas and groves and gardens. 
Fort Pierce. lupiter Narrows, with their man.groves, through Hobe Sound, on 
whose shores is fu'st seen the cocoanut palm, to Jupiter Inlet, and so on to Palm 
]*)each and Hay Hiscaxne. 

The Indian River is more ])roperly termed a vast lagoon of salt water, extend- 
ing lor 165 miles parallel with the Atlantic ( )cean. and sei)arated from it by a nar- 
row strij) of land, sometimes but a few yards across. 1die Indian River varies 
from a mile to six miles in width; its shores are often bold bluffs, antl for a large 
proportion of its length it is lined with orange groves, plantations of Florida fruits. 
and tile native forest growth. As one proceeds south the scenery, everywhere 
charming, grows more tropical. 

De Land is situated in the orange grove section, between the St. John's River 
and the Atlantic Ocean, 100 miles sotith of Jacksonville, on the J., T. & K. W. Ry. 
The town is noted for its salubrious climate and healthfulness, and for the enter- 
prise, intelligence and high character of its people. The city is for miles sur- 
rounded by forests of the yellow .Southern pine, enricliing the air with balsam. 
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swamps are in the immediate vicinity and the deep deposit of porous sand pro- 
vides perfect surface drainas^e. Shade trees are abundant. Rows of substantial 
brick business buikhn^s, all occui)ied. .yive the city an aspect of prosperity, which 
is enhanced by the numerous tasteful, comfortable houses with their well kept 
lawns which line the residence streets. Pavements in and about the city, and the 
excellent paths that have been made to adjacent towns and points of interest, ofifer 
unexcelled opportunities to the wheelman. An excellent bicycle path has been 
made to Lake Reresford, a beautiful sheet of water five miles distant; also a good 
shell and pine straw road to Orange City, five miles south, and under the direction 
of the De Land Roard of Trade a fine shell road is being made, at a cost of about 
$16000, to the famous DeLeon Springs, seven miles north of tcnxn. 

De Land is the seat of the John R. Stetson University, whicli has a group of 
massive and beautiful buildings costing not less than $200,000; a carefully selected, 
rapidly growing library of 7,000 volumes, a comprehensive nuiscum of natural 
history, distinct, well-e(|uipped laboratories for j^hysics, c]iemistr\- and biology, 
a large gymnasium with all necessar\- a|)paratus, over twenty professors and in- 
structors who are grachuites of institutions of highest rank, and a fine student body 
made up of young men and women from all parts of Florida and from man\ States 
of the Union. The L'niversity includes a college of liberal arts, an academy pre- 
paring for any American college, a normal and practice scliool. a business college, 
a school of art, and a school of music. 

Fort Pit:rc'E has l^een alluded to cjU another page as a centre for shooting 
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( )ur illustration is of a tari)on taken 
in Sfi)tcMnl)C'r. iS<;7. by Mr. I'Vank 
M. 'IMor. the projjrietor of the Von 
I'icrcc llotc-1. TIk' fish was 6 feet 
(; inclu's in k'n^lli and weii^iied 190 
pounds. Il was lakt'U with rod and 
i\t1. l''orl ricrcf is in the i)iue- 
a])])U' ^^,■^■lion. riu' section is one 
of interest, too. l)ecause of the rehcs 
(if a h\'.L;-one a.L;"e and a vanished ])eo- 
])le: there.' are Imhan mounds, which 
one nia\ explore and theorize about; 
and while of later times, yet remote 
enou.uh from the hdorida of to-day, 
ari' the earthworks of old horl 
I'icrce. sui^gestive memorials of the 
da\ s when the Semiuoles were mak- 
iu!:;- a ho])eless stand a.i^'ainst fate. 

1 )A^•ro^•.\ has already had men- 
tion on i)ag-e 68. where l)y a mis- 
])rint it was i)Ut twenty mi'es from 
( )rmond. 1'he founders of Day- 
tona set out to make a New k.n^- 
land settlement in the South, and 
the thrivini,^ i)rosperous and g-row- 
in^- \illa,^e. which is essentially one 
of homes, is marked 1)\' the best 
characteristics of Massachusetts 

.\ FOUT IMF.RC K TAKI'DX. . AICIIT in I'. M. TVI OU. toWU lifc. .SoUH'thiu-- of itS beaUtV 

is hinted in our illustration of Rid.s^e- 
wood avenue, with moss-drapeil oaks. Iviel^'ewood is one of the many avenues 
and streets for which Maxtona i- fam.ms. Rare opporlmiities for the wheelman 
are attorded. not only in miles and miles of shady roads and cycle paths. Init in a 
beach which is wonderfully hard and smooth, and stretches for thirty miles with- 
out a break in its e\en surface, on which the hoof of a trotting- horse luakes ne^ 
impression. 

Orl.wdo (fonr miles from W inter I'ark ) is the winter home of many Xorth- 
ern peo])le and a i)o])ular resort. It is an oultittin.L;- point for lunuiuL;- and tisluu"- 
excursions. 

WiXTKK I'.vkK is celebrated for its elevated situation amid the beautiful lakes 
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RIDGEVVOOD AVtXL li — DAY TON A. 



from one of the hotel observatories, and the panorama inchidcs handsome vihas 
and fruitful orange groves. 

SuwANEE Springs, on the Suwanee River famed in song, is reached from 
Jacksonville by the Florida Central & Peninsular Railway to Live Oak. thence by 
Plant System. The sulphur springs here draw large numbers of visitors. 

Pineapple growing was a Florida industry in the forties; but only within re- 
cent years has it assumed commercial importance. The land suited to pineapple 
cultivation is limited to the East Coast from Merritt's Island south. The pineapple 
is a species of air-plant, and belongs to the same family as the tillandsia, or "Span- 
ish moss." The mature plant is 2\ feet in height, with a spread of 2 feet across; the 
fruit is borne on a stalk in the centre. Each plant produces one pine in a season. 
Pineapples are grown from suckers, slips or the crowns of the pines; they are set 
out in midsummer, 10,000 to 12,000 to the acre; bear in a larger percentage the 
first year, and yield fruit for four or five years thereafter. The pineapple, ripened 
on the stem and eaten when freshly plucked, is as superior to the imported pines of 
the Northern market as oranges in Morida groves are superior to those from 
abroad. 



PICTURESQUE NASSAU. 

Xassak. — Tlu- ])assas"c across tlir (iulf Sircani to [he "Isles of jane" is in 
effect l)nt a slij^-lit extension of the IHorida tour. l-"roin Miami to Nassau the dis- 
tance is onl\ 143 miles — a short excursion, 
Axliich ma\ liardly be said to involve Rointi" 
to sea. 

h'or the tourist Nassau has many attrac- 
tions: its climate is peculiarly grateful to the 
fugitive from the rigors and sudden changes 
of the Xorlhern winter and spring, tasking 
in floods of perpetual sunshine and s\vei)t ])\' 
soft ocean l)ree;^es, the lUihamas enjoy a tem- 
])erature which is remarkably equable; from 
( )ctober to June the mercury ranges from 65 
to 80 degrees: ot^cial records show for Janu- 
arv 70 degrees. l">bruary 71 degrees, Alarch 
22 degrees, and April 75 degrees. This is a 
sununer land, though the calendar marks the 
winter season; and the whole aspect of the 
island is of suiumer and summer life. The 
houses are built with generous piazzas and 
latticed verandas, and are embowered amid 
roses, jessamines and oleanders. Orange, 
lemon and lime are everywhere. Slender 
])alms uplift their i)lumes against the sky. 
liere we are in the tn)pics. but the trojjics 
tempered l)y the gratefully invigorating influ- 
ences of the sea. 

Nassau is the cai)ital of the Bahamas. The ( iovernor. who is appointed by 
the Crown, resides here. The population numbers 15.000. of whom four-fifths are 
colored. The city is admirably governed; the vvhite residents are for the most 
part descendants of English colonial families; there is here that spirit of hospital- 
itv which is never wanting in countries where the doors always stand open. The 
island is of coral formation. The native rock is an admirable road-building ma- 
terial; the roads of New Providence are noted for their excellence, and driving 
and wheeling are favorite amusements. One may visit the palm groves and make 
test of the milk fresh from the cocoanut; prove the excellence of the Bahama pine- 
apples, newly picked from the stem; or inspect the plantations of sisal hemp, which 
looks like the century plant, and if fortunate may see the leaves cut, shredded and 
baled. 

There are three forts on the island, long since disused, and now serving only 




ON TliK WAV TO MAKKI/r 




NO PLACE LIKE IIOMK 




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A NASSAU llOMK. 



Till-: KOYAL PALM. 



as picturesciue properties in a laii(lsca])e which, with its noveky and glamor, its 
dazzHng whites and glowing greens, has sometliing of the unreal character of a 
stage setting. Tlie (Jueen's ."staircase, near lort lincastle. is an interesting ruin 
of the days when garrisons uuisteretl here; and it is all the more fascinating l)e- 
causc its origin and i)ur])ose ]:)i(iue the curiosity. 

rile water excursions include a \'isit to the ."^ea < iardens. a point in the chan- 
nel where the hottoui is covered with faudeaf coral of many vivid hues, amid which 
swim hshes of graceful form and hrilliant colors. Rowhoats are provided with 
glass plates in the holtoni. through which the marine life ma\- he studied. Xight 
excursions are made to the "Lake of I'ue." This is an artificial pond which was 
built as a storage reservoir for live tish ami green turtles, and which has becoiiie 
pliosphorescent in an extraordinary degree. 

The island is of coral formati(.)n. and one peculiarity to attract attention is the 
prevailing absence of soil and the astonishing way the trees grow from the rock — 
or. for that matter, on the loj) of a wall. There are no running streams, no wild 
animals except hares, and of snakes only the innocent and harmless chicken-snake. 

Life in Nassau is for the most i)art repose and light-hearted, care-free indo- 
lence. The ]irincii»al indu>lries of the I'.ahamas are sponging and wrecking. In 



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old days the place was a secure stronghold of the famous pirate Black-Beard, 
legends of whose escapades, exploits and ferocity still linger about the island. 
During our Civil War Nassau was headquarters of the blockade runners, who 
sailed from here to run the blockades of Confederate ports; there were three hun- 
dred such entries and departures in a single year. In those times cotton was king, 
and the value of Nassau imports and exports amounted in one year to fifty millions 
of dollars. 

By the service of the Florida-Bahama Steamship Line, Nassati has been 
brought within ten hotirs of Miami, and sixty hours of New York. The magnifi- 
cent steel steamship Aliami. built for this service, is a twin screw, full powered boat, 
capable of making 17 knots per hour. With accommodations for 125 passengers, 
she is finished with a luxury and elegance imequalled on the coast. 

The Royal Victoria Hotel, having been acquired by INIrs. Henry M. Flagler, 
will be supplanted at the close of this season by a new hotel erected on the same 
beautiful site, to take its place in 1898-9 as an adjunct to the East Coast Hotel 
System. 




A GARDEN IN NASSAU. 



The Land of the Sky, 



Till-; Mori(la-l)ouiul toun'sl lias clioior of three tliroii^ii trains a day over the 
SoutluTii Railwa}-. Each ol' them is vestil)uleiL is e(|ui])])(.(l with everv appoint- 
ment known to the comfort and refinement 
of railroad development, and speeds to its 
destination as the arrow fiies. 

Two thron.^h trains are provided daily 
from Xew ^'ork to St. AujS^iistine. The 
ronte from Xew York is via I'hiladelphia, 
r.altimore, Washington, Lynchburg. Dan- 
ville. Greensboro, Salisbury. Charlotte. Co- 
]uml)ia. Sa\'aniiali and Jacksonville to St. 
Augustine. The time card calls for a sched- 
ule of less than iwentv-nine hoiu"s. This is 
a lrium])h of ])erfected railway service. The 
.^ontliern route is well named the Florida 
Short J.ine. 

Or. if we shall be not over-impatient for 
the sunny sky of Florida, but shall linger 
here and there to visit fields made famous by 
ilie conflicts of the war, to look upon scenery 
worth a nnich longer journey to behold, or to 
learn something of the ways and the charm of 
life in this middle Soulli. all ihe.-e we shall find on the main line of the Southern 
.System and its score of alluring bypaths. I'rom Washington to Florida the route 
is through a historic and picturescjue region. Add to the historic and scenic at- 
tractions of the line the s])len(lid exhibition b\- which the trip affords a magnificent 
revelation of the agricultural, mineral and industrial resources of the South, and 
then you shall understand why the tedium of travel is something which is never 
known on the speeding trains of the Southern. 

The only vestibulcd limited trains with dining cars serving all meals between 
Xew York, W'ashington, and New Orleans, are those of the Southern Railway. 
The quick schedules are maintained with remarkable punctuality. This is also 
the route of the United States Fast Mail between Washington and Xew Orleans. 

The extensive through car service of the Southern Railway likewise embraces 
llu-ou-jh rullniaii drawing room cars between Xew York. \\'ashington, and Au- 




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gusta, Ga.. for Bon Air. Aiken, etc. Also between New York. Washington, and 
Memphis. Tenn. Likewise between Washington and Galveston, Texas. 

So it matters not in what direction you may be going to and from any im- 
portant point between the South and Washington, you will find the Southern Rail- 
way prepared to afford you the very schedule and through car you want. 

Not onlv does the Southern Railway aliford a direct and delightful through 
service to Florida and the far South, but it gives the only access to the famed re- 
sorts of the Land of the Skv in western North Carolina. It is the route to Ashe- 




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ville. a point whose reputation has been increasing for eight or ten years as a home 
for people who seek a mild climate, with excellent hotels and other nniltiplied at- 
tractions. The city is situated on a plateau between the Allegheny Mountains, 
the Blue Ridge and the Great Smoky — all made famous in poems and prose by 



The Land of llir Sky. 

Charles l\Q"l)crt Crriddock. ("hristian I\ei«l and Constance l'"enimore ^^'oolson. 
Asheville is between the Swannanoa and I'lxncli llroad rivers: it overlooks a 
thousand s(|nare miles of sn])er]) scenery and has been ternietj tlie "CitN- in the 
Skies." The town is noted for its heallhtnl and delicious climate, its ])ure and invit^'- 
orating- atmosphere, the beauty of its scenery, its delig'htful drives, and a wealth of 
adjacent ])oints of interest. Climatic ma])s and official data furnished 1)\- the I'niled 
States Signal Service show that Asheville has the driest climate, the vear round, of 
any point east of Denver. Out of 365 days tliere is an average of 259 clear ones. 
It is far enough south to insure a mild winter, while its altitude is so great as t(j 
create a cool sunnner. lUit more than all other considerations is the pr(jved 
healthfulness of this region. Malaria is unknown. The mountain district of 
western Xorth Carolina has long been favorably known for its healthful climate, 
and especiallx' for its beneficial effects in pulmonar\- and throat troubles. These 
succumb to the balmy air of this localit\. .^ome of the most learned and skilled 
physicians in the Cnited .States ha\'e recorded the fact that in this climate tubercu- 
lar consmu])tion is nt»t hereditarx'. 

This beautilul .Xorth Carolina cit\ in the skies is a great halfwav sto])])ing 
place, both in going to Florida and returning home. It offers attractions that 
cannot be found elsewhere; its people are open-hearted and hospitable; its cli- 
mate unsiu^passed east of the Rocky Mountains. 

"Ashexille. the beautilul. nuich extolled and world-wide known." writes 
Charles Irlallock in l-i>rcsl ami Si ream, "is .Mecca for tourists the whole vear round. 
They come in crowds from the South in sunnner and from the Xorth in winter, 
lingering until the solstices are well s])ent. ( )nl\ in .\la\- and ( >ctober do breaks 
<iccur in the pilgrimage, frosts and heats do not check the tidal tluxes anv more 
than they interru])! the migration of wildfowl. au\ meteorological excesses being 
accepted as ])referable to home conditions. 

"\\'hat Lenox in Massachusetts is to the Berkshire Hills, sociallx and trans- 
cendently. the town of /Vsheville is to lUmcombe count\'. .\. C.; onl\ the con- 
fe»rmation ot the inclosing mountains is more massive and the conventionalities 
less exacting. I'retension is not uuich o\ erstrained. and the glitter of wealth docs 
not blind the unaccustomed eye: so that Mr. Slimpurse contem])lates its visil)lc 
expression as he does the afterghjw of sunset, delighting in its radiance because 
the solar j^owcr is not felt. F.\en the dominating magnihcence and scope of IHlt- 
more are tem])i.'red to the shoiMi and ini])i cnuii iu>. who regard it less as a wonder 
than a cornuco])ia of su])erabundauce dissc miuaiing blessings in its overflow. And 
so it ha])i)ens that .Vsheville in all its aesthetic and economic aspects is made in- 
viting to sojourners and transients. Its dimpled hills and undulations are soft and 
velvety. 

"Cntil the Western Xorth Carolir.a Railroad first scaled these battlements of 
'cloud land" with its iron ways, a dozen years ago. Asheville was practically iso- 
lated and unknewn. .Xow it is the nlliiini thuh' of tour'sts. N'isitors come all the 



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way from Europe to inspect the great American dukedom and the castle which has 
no equal on the Rhine. And since it has been included in the comprehensive 
Southern Railway system, brick blocks are going up en masse on the principal 
streets and villas by the score — Asheville rising, phenix-like! Drives and trolleys 
wind everywhere. The French Broad River, loo yards wide, incloses half its 
environs. From a central eminence on Battery Park, dominating the surround- 
ing streets like the Ca]:)itol at Washington, one looks out on every side across an 




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interval of compacted l)ricks and mortar to circumjacent hills and wooded ridges 
crowned with modern villas. Beyond this tangible horizon, away ofi in the blue 
distance under the cloud line, in phalanges almost unbroken, stand the circum- 
vallate mountains, reaching north, south, east and west — the Great Smokies. Bal- 
sams, Black Mountains and Blue Ridge all in full view; not just one single 'Presi- 
dential Range,' aligned in grim array, as in the White Mountains, but Titanic ele- 
vations all around, out of whose serrated ranks rise no less than forty domes and 
peaks exceeding 6,000 feet in height. Gaze in whatever direction we may, there 
loom inimitable heights. It is grand! The outlook has no counterpart on the 
continent." 

And of the scenery on the Southern, as it brings one to Asheville, ]\lr. Hallock 
writes: "West of Round Knob, on the division approaching Asheville, the scen- 
ery is very grand, and the tortuous ascent almost equal to the zigzag up the Cas- 
cades on the Pacific division of the Great Northern Railroad. From one point the 
track over which the train has just climbed may be seen on fourteen different 
grades, and the course is so sinuous that the sun beams into the car windows first 
on one side and then the other; while silvery cascades leap from the mountain sides 
so close as to almost wet the coaches with their spray. It is just after this toilsome 
ascent that the train draws into the Jong tunnel at Swamianoa, and thence out of 



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the gloom into the upper firmament and sunshine of Asheville. The two spurs of 
the same railroad, which run northwest to Paint Rock and southwest to Murphy, 
1 20 miles, are romanticall\- niqi^cc] almost all the way. and arc reckoned amonjj;' 
the most daring pieces of railroad engineering in the country." 

Biltmore. the country seat of George \\'. \'ander])ilt, near Asheville. is reputed 
to be the most costly and valuable ])rivale estate in America. The house grounds 
comprise 9.000 acres of lawn, farm and forest, with 30 miles of magnificent road- 
ways, rustic bridges, artificial lakes, and thousands of trees, shrubs ami plants 
brought from ever\- (|uarter of the globe. The hunting ])reserves comprise 87,000 
acres more. The house stands on an artificial ])lateau formed by truncating the 
cone of a mountain peak. It overlooks the I'rench Broad and Swannanoa rivers, 
and connnands an entrancing panorama of valleys and mountains, range u])on 
range; there are fifty peaks which are more than 5,000 feet high. The house is 
built of stone anrl of brick made on the estate: it is 300x192 feet, with lawns, tennis 
courts, bowling green, conservatories, sunken gardens and other features. The 
house was i)cgun in 1891, and was opened on Christmas Day of 1895. The N'ander- 
bilt estate is one of the most interesting attractions in the vicinitv of Asheville; the 
])ul)lic is ])ernntted to driw through the groiuids. The architect of liillniore 
House was the late Richard Morris llunt; the landscape architect was bred. Law 
Olmstead. Our illustration is from a photograph taken from the "rampe-douce" 
or plaza, showing in the foreground the water garden; it looks upon the eastern 
front, a notable feature of which is the exterior winding staircase. From the 
Kenilworth Inn. whose grounds adjoin those of r>iltmore. admirable views are 
gained of the magnificent estate, with its great house and beautiful expanse of 
landsca]ie gardening, winding (lri\-es and forests. 




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ON THE WAY HOME. 

Charleston is full of objects of interest to every American. Here in the 
harbor is Fort Sumter, with dismantled walls, but flying- the Stars and Stripes 
above it. At Moultrieville is the grave of Osceola, the Seminole, who died while 
imprisoned in Fort Moultrie. The new fortifications just finished l)y the I'nited 
States Government are the largest in extent on the Atlantic coast. The garrison 
has recentlv been augmented by a regiment of artillery, and it is probal)le that this 
year, as last, Charleston will be the rendezvous of the North x\tlantic St|uadron. 
The Magnolia Gardens, filled with japonicas, rose bushes and azaleas, present a 
spectacle of floral magnificence, and the continent may be challenged to ecfual the 
superb effect. Artists make pilgrimages to Charlest(m in the spring to paint its 




Til E BATTERY — (.11 ARLESTON. 

wonderful flowers. The Chicora Golf Club has laid out a fine course and erected 
a cosy clul) house, where tourists will be welcome. There are miles of fine sliell 
roads for the carriage and bicycle leading along broad avenues lined with hand- 
i-ome residences and through groves of ancient oaks draped with silver moss. ( )n 
the road around the Battery an excellent view of the harbor antl many historical 
points of interest is obtainetl. Then there is old St. Michael's, the anti-Revolu- 
tionary Church, with its historic chimes and tall tower. 

SuMMERXiLLi:. .South Carolina, twenty-two miles from Charleston, on the 
S. C. & E. Ga. R. R., is in a ])iney regicMi, where the ])ure, fresh, dry air is of special 
advantage to health-seekers, and the pleasure tourist will find in the delightful 
climate antl the many things to engage attention and i)it|ue interest abundant ex- 
cuse for prolonging his visit. There are flower gardens, tea plantations, ancient 
churches — one of them the famous Goose Creek Church, built in 171 1 — antl nu- 



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mertms relics and reminders of RevolntiDnary da\s. anion^)" them the oak under 
wliicli (ieneral .\lar\in inxited the llntish officer to share liis meal of sweet jiota- 
toes. 

The fine new q'olf links ])ro\-ided 1)\- the Tine I'orest Inn make another in the 
series ejf o-ronnds in the South which afford .idmirahle o])])ortunity for the most 
enthusiastic and (le\'oled follower of the ])o])ular sport. 

Ai'crsTA. ( ieoryia. has that medium climate whicli is recoq-nized as as;Teeal)le 
and beneficial to residents of the Xorth nturuin^" fnun more Southern points: it 
has, toei. a ])articularl\- (lr\ and halmv atmos])here. and elevation to escape all 
malarial and other diseases incident to low. warm countries. There are excellent 
roads for driving' and c}'cling'. with (|uail. woodcock and sni])e shootin;^' in the near 
vicinitv. The 1 lotel lion Air ^olf links consist of nine holes, covering a distance 
of about a mile and a half, embracing some of the finest natural hazards imaginable. 
Tile turf is particularl) hard and firm. The course is within three nfinutes' walk 
of the hotel and located in a cove commanding" beautiful views of the city and sur- 
r(.'unding countrv. The links were first laid out last season, and were then pro- 
nounced as fine as an\ in the .Sduth; since then considerable labor and expense 
have been ex])ended on them and they are all that the most ardent devotee of the 
sport could desire, 'bhe tem])erature will admit of ])la\ing any day in the winter. 
AiKi:\. the l.enox of the South, is a ])rett\ little \illage in South Carolina, 
located upon a sand ridge which runs {xo\w east to west across the .State. It is 
seventeen nnles from Augusta. ( ia.. and one hundred and twenty nnles from 
Charleston. S. C The streets are unusualK wide and \ery atlracti\e. most of 
them haxing a system of parks in the centre, in which there are l)eautiful trees and 
shrubber\- with rustic seats placed at short intervals. The water is obtained from 
an artesian well, which is said from anal_\sis to be the second pmx'St water in the 
world. 

The mean tem])erattu-e being 52 degrees, there is a temperate climate during 
the season, it being just ct:)ld enotigh for one to enjo\- a walk, and still so warm in 
the sunshine that there are ver\ few days when it is not ])leasant to sit beneath its 
rays. Aiken has the dryest climate, of which there is any record, east of the Rocky 
Mountains. The ])revailing wind is from the southwest. (Jbservations taken for 
six years show that out of 181 days. namel\. from XOn ember 1st to May 1st, there 
is a mean of 154 clear days and only 2~ rain\ and cloud} days, so that one can be 
out of duors 134 da_\ s. ( )f the 27 rainy and elimdy days there are many on which 
(.Jiie can enjo} short walks or an outing on the porches. 'Jdie air is so bracing that 
it does not give that feeling of lassitude which is so prevalent in warm and hot 
climates. 

Tile woods for miles around are well stocked with both the gray and red fox, 
Mr. Hitchcock, who was Master of Hounds of the Meadowbrook Club for several 
years, owns a fine jiack of hounds, which he keeps in .\iken, and during the season, 
from December 1st to April 1st, he has a meet three times a week in the early morn- 



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ing. The Palmetto Golf Links are about three miles around, composed of eighteen 
holes, and were laid out by two of the most celebrated players of Boston and Xew 
York. The course in general is about 70 to 150 yards wide, free from trees, with 
•excellent lines throughout. The putting greens are sixty feet in diameter, except 
the big one before the Club House, and are all of smooth sand, and as safe to punt 
over as a marble slab. The teeing grounds are particularly fine, and no expense 
has been spared to make the links all that the most enthusiastic golf player could 
wish for. 

Camden is another of the South Carolina towns which have abiding interest 
for the tourist because of the graces and adornments lavished upon it by nature 
and the historical associations which cling to it. Here one still may see ruins of 
•earthworks thrown up in Revolutionary days, near what was Lord Cornwallis's 
headquarters; and in the Presbyterian cemetery is the handsome marble monu- 
ment, its cornerstone laid by Lafayette, which marks the grave of Baron De Kalb. 
Camden takes pride in its antiques and jealously preserves them, keeping alive, 
too, the flame of that hospitality which has long been proverbial as a characteristic 
•of the South. It is grateful to be made to feel at home, as does the tourist tarrying 
here on his w^ay from Florida to the North; and whether one's fancy incline to 
simple repose and rose gardens, or to refreshing one's knowledge of Revolutionary 
heroes, or to the pursuit of game, or the triumphs and rallyings from defeat on the 
golf course, every taste may be gratified in Camden. Of the health resort char- 
acter of the place. Dr. Willard Parker. Jr., has written: 

Camden is situated in some piney sandhills, at an elevation of about 240 feet 
above tide water. Owing to the peculiar nature of the soil, all moisture is almost 
immediately absorbed, so that the air is remarkably dry. As regards temperature, 
while, as throughout the entire South there are a few cold days, we find none of 
that penetrating cold experienced near the seaboard; nor. on the other hand, do 
we have any of that excessively enervating heat met with in places farther south. 
The pme trees, and turpentine stills, in the vicinity, give the air a terebinthine odor, 
most soothing to those harassed by cough. 

Thomasville stands on the highest point of a peculiar ridge that extends 
through a part of Southwest Georgia. This ridge has been called the Piedmont 
section of the pine belt, because of varied landscape of rolling hills and clear 
streams. Prom the city splendid hard roads diverge in every direction, afford- 
ing enchanting drives and rides through the pine forests that encircle the city in all 
directions. These pine forests are now recognized as Nature's sanitarium, anrl 
will add to the health and pleasure of all visitors. A newly completed boulevard 
makes the circuit of the city at an average distance of two miles from the Court 
House. Some of the views along this drive are as charming and picturesque as 
any in the country, and along its whole length it is canopied by overhanging pines 
and flanked by a rank growth of grass. Thomasville is a city with nearly 6,000 
people, with wide streets, pleasant homes, and a wealth of flowers. Its light, por- 



The Sta7tdard Guide. 

ous soil permits the reaclv absorption of water, so tliat after even the hardest rain 
nitul is nnknown. One of the most remarkably climatic features is the number of 
clear days, even in w inter. 

1 )urin,^- the past snnnner over thirty miles of new bicycle paths were built by 
local clul)s. for use of the o:eneral ]ml)lic. afifordino- ample opportunity for exercise 
on the wlieel. Local dealers furnisli or care for wlieels at a moderate cost. The 
s.;olf links of tlie Country Club, and which are accessil)le to visitors, are considered 
among the best in llie South. i'"or the sportsman there is excellent (piail shooting- 
nearby, and a large lake not far distant affords excellenl duck and snipe shooting 
in season. 

Till'. \'iK(,i.\iA Hoc .Si'Kixcs are delightfully located in the Hot Springs \'al- 
ley of \ irginia. on the Chesapeake & ( )hio Railway, at an elevation of 2,500 feet. 
The}- are environed by mountains rising 4,000 feet above the sea, and ofTer a 
charming retreat for pleasure seekers and alTord the natural conditions so neces- 
sary for the comfort of invalids. 

An exceptional and striking feature of the climate is its exemption from mois- 
ture. The uniformity of temperature and the dry, invigorating, bracing air are 
si)Ieu(hd adjuncts to tlie health-giving waters, and form one of the most important 
of the natural conditions that unite to aid in the remarkable curative results that 
have been experienced for generations, and that have lately become so widely 
known. The surrounding mountains afford ]M-otection from violent changes and 
insure a delightful temperature, free from extremes in snnnner and safe in the most 
severe winters. The climate of \drginia is admittedly one of the most uniform, 
mild and pleasant in the world, and official records show that the Hot Springs Val- 
ley, in this respect, is a favored spot in this fortunate State. 

The scenery is richly colored, bold and picturescjue. The visitor can drive 
for miles over boulevards and roads, everywhere attractive and affording a succes- 
sion of constantlv changing mountain views not excelled by any scenery in the 
Alleghanies. 

Atlanta, with its thirteen railroads, is termed the Gate City. The name 
suggests commercial importance. The \'olume of business aggregates $160,000.- 
000 a year. Atlanta is the metropolis of the South. If your ticket over the .South- 
ern reads via Atlanta, von w ill tin<l abundant intcre>t and attraction for a stay here. 
The dome of the State Capitol will remind you of the one at W'ashington; the soft 
coal smoke will cause the Chicago man to sigh {ox home; one may dodge trolleys 
as in Brooklyn or Boston, anil in the business section will be reminded of certain 
({uarters of Xew York. The city itself and its suburbs are rich in historical asso- 
ciations connected with the Civil War. In (irant Park may still l)e seen the ruins 
of l'\)rt Walker; IV^achtree Creek and I'>.ra Church battlegrounds are near. Three 
miles out I)\- steam is I'ort .Md'herson. a militarx ])ost. where one may get a 
glimpse of arm}- routine. 



TJic Standard Guide. 



Richmond, the venerable capital on the James, 
has many attractions in its beautiful site and 
picturesque surroundings, and its historic asso- 
ciations. The Capitol building, which dates 
from the last century, contains with other treas- 
ured heirlooms of the past Houdon's Statue of 
Washington, a copy of which is in the National 
Statuary Hall at Washington. Capitol Square 
has for chief adornment Crawford's noble work, 
the Washington Monument, and here too are 
statues of Clay and Stonewall Jackson, and else- 
where the Lee Monument. Among the relics of 
Revolutionary days old St. John's Church claims 
first place, as the scene of the Virginia Conven- 
tion of 1775, when Patrick Henry sounded his 
immortal declaration, "Give me liberty or give 
me death." 

Old Point Comfort holds an unique pku e. 
Situation, climate, scenery and surroundings con- 
spire to make it the most popular of all-the-year- 
around seaside resorts. The locality is one ren- 
dered ever famous by the momentous events 
which took place here in the sea conflicts of 
the Civil War. From the hotel piazzas one looks 
out over the broad waters where, in their terrific 
duel, the Monitor and the Merrimac changed the 
modes of naval warfare. Old Point is the seat of Fort Monroe, the largest fortifica- 
tion on the continent, and Hampton Roads is a rendezvous of the White Squadron. 
Proximity to Washington and ease of access from New York make it the favorite 
resort of many distinguished people, and its social features most brilliant. 




THE HOUDON WASHINGTON 




THE WHARF AT OLD POINT. 



Tourist Routes. 




WASHINGTON IS A BEAUTIFUL CITY. 



CKR TAINIA' the iiHist excellent passenger service in permanent daily operation afforded the 
S.iuth is that of the world famous WASHINGTON & SOUTHWESTERN VESTIBUEED 
I.IMrri'.l) of the Southern Railway, running every day in the year between New York and 
New (Orleans, via Washington, Atlanta, Montgomery and Mobile, accomplishing the entire journey 
inside of forty hours, and comprising vestibuled drawing-room Pullman sleeping cars and hotel dining 
cars, serving all meals between New "S'ork and New Orleans ; also having lirst-class thoroughfare 
coaches. 

No extra charge is made for fast time on these trains. 

And equally certain, no long-distance schedule in the United States is maintained with more exact 
punctuality. Passing through the Piedmont section, along the charming mountain ranges of Virginia 
and Xoith Carolina, the entire journey is a [ileasiiialile scenic entertainment. 

Then, too, this is the route of the companion train, the " United States East Mail," so that all pas- 
sengers from all points between the South antl Southwest, and Washington, New \ork and the East, 
will most surely find it to their greatest comfort and atlvantage to see that their tickets read "via the 
Southern Railway." 

Complete information obtainable from any Ticket or Passenger Agent of the Pennsylvania R. R. 
Co., Southern Railway Oimpany, A. \ W. P. and W. of A., Louisville c\: Nashville R. R. Co.,. 
and connecting lines. This is the direct route also between iexas, California and Mexico and the 
Eastern cities. 

New Orleans office: 602 Canal Street, also L. ic N. offices. Mobile office: I,. & N., city and station. Montgomery 
office; 8 Commerce Street, also Union Station. .Macnn. Ga., office: 413 Fourth Street, also Southern Railway Station. 
AtUnta office: -corner Kimball House, also Union Depot. Augusta, Ga., office: 739 Broad Street, also Union Station also 
729 Hrosd Street. Washington offices: 511 Pennsylvania Avenue; 705 Fifteenth Street; Pennsylvania R. R. Station. 
New York office: 271 Broadway. Jacksonville, Fla., office: 212 West Bay Street; L. A. Shipman, Florida Passenger Agent. 



J. M CULP, 
Tr.iffic Manager, Washington. 



W. A. TURK, 
Gen'l Passenger Agent, Washington. 



S. H. HARDWICK, 
Ass't Gen'l Passenger Agent, Atlanta. 



Information also at Standard Guide Information Bureau, Hotel Cordova Round Tower, St. Augustine. 



Tourist Routes, 




WAR, sr.VIK AM) \A\'Y KlULniNG. 



A GREAT SYSTEM THROUGH A 
1 GREAT COUNTRY. 

ALL of the through lines of the Southern Railway System, penetrating the States of ihe South, 
converge at Washington, the beautiful capital of the nation, upon quickest trains antl through 
a picturesque country — twice daily through from N,;w Oilcans, via .Mobile, ^U)ntgomery, 
Atlanta, Charlotte, Danville and Lynchburg, direct to Washington. 

From Memphis two lines — one via Biimingham, Anniston, Atlanta, Lynchburg, direct to Washing- 
ton and New York ; the other via Chattanooga, Knoxville and Bristol, direct to Washington. 

From Asheville and "The Lanil of the Sky," v"a Salisburv, Danville and I.ynchburi^, direct to 
Washington and New York. 

Then from Tampa, l'"la., via Jacksonville, Savannah, Columbia, Charlotte and L\nchburg, direct to 
Washington and New ^'ork. 

Similar connecting service from all other points in the South ; so that it matters not from v.iiat point 
vou start, if vou are going to or through Washington, it will be to your iiitetest ti> see that \our ticket 
reads "via the Southern Railway." 

Detailed information cheerfully furnished by any ticket agent in the South, particularly by the agents 
of the Southern Railway Company. L. A. SHII'MAN, Florida Passenger Agent, 212 West Bay 
Street, Jacksonville, Fla. 



\V. A. TURK, 

General Passenger Agent, 

Washington, D. C. 



S. H. HARDWICK, 

Assistant General Passenger Agent, 

Atlanta, G.i. 



C. A. BEXSCOTER, 
Assistant General Passenger Agen 
Chattanooga, Tenn. 



Information also at the Standard Guide Information Bureau, Hotel Cordova Round Tower, St. Augustine. 



ToiD'isf Ronlcs. 



ONE NIGHT OUT. 





(orRMlNIXC. bctwetMi Florida 
and lliL- Xorthcast, you will 
naluralh" dc-cidf to _<;o via 
\\ ashiii^loii, and htiu'c;, (iiiite as 
naliirally. will pi-ffcr to take the 
most (U'lii^htful and sliortt-st route, 
viz., the Sol riiia<N Rah. wan. which 
"">' ____ .^^'^f""' ''" (.'.xtcMuls troin Washington alonti^ the 

rhannin^' mountain si'ction of \'ir- 
g'inia and North Carolina, and unites at Columbia, S. C'., with the I'dorida Central 
<v Peninsular R. R., via Savannah and Jacksonville. 

Auxiliarv tours are provided at a small cost for those of our patrons desiring 
to eiiji'v a detour through the glorious mountains of Western North Carolina — 
••I'he Rand of the Sky" — enihracini;- .\sheville, Ilot Springs, N. C., etc., reached 
hv the S<»t'ini.K\ K\ii\\ AN. 

Similar arrangemi-nts also for l''lorida tourists desiring to visit Jirunswick hv 
the Sea. 

Through cars between New \'ork, Washington and Jacksonville. Luxurious 
<lrawing-r<)om cars. 

C()m[ilete information obtainable from any 'I'icket or Passenger .\gent of the 
Pennsylvania R. R. Company, Southern Railway Company, Florida Central <.\: J'en- 
insular R. R. Co., I'lorida Kast Coast Line (Flagler System) and connecting lines; 
or L. .\. Shipman, I'lorida I'assenger .\gt-nt. 212 West Ray Street, Jacksonville, Fla. 



W. .\. riKK, C, !•. A., S,Hi:licrn K.iilway Co., Washin-li.n, D. C. 
S. H. HARDWUK., A. (l. 1'. A , S. utlicrii Kailw;iy Co., .Atlanta, (l.^. 



Information also at Standard Cuuie Information liureau. Hotel Cordova Round Tower, St. Ausustine. 



Tourist Routes. 




As the Arrow Flics -^ 

So swiftly and directly speed along the great through Vestibuled Trains of the Queen & Crescent 
Route — the Southern Railway — the Florida Short Line between Cincinnati and Jacksonville, via Chat- 
tanooga, Lookout Mountain, Atlanta, Macon, Everett, forming the shortest and quickest route between 
these points, and affording most luxurious through car service, consisting of entire vestibuled trains, 
Pullman drawing-room and compartment cars, vestibuled thoroughfare coaches, smoking cars, etc.; 
also carrying sleeping cars between Cincinnati and Tampa without change, presenting the best route 
between 

CHICAGO, INDIANAPOLIS, DETROIT, 
ST. LOUIS, CLEVELAND, COLUMBUS, ETC. 

Also offering excellent service between St. Louis and Jacksonville, via Louisville and Eurgin, Ky., via 

L. E. & ST. L. R. R. 

SOUTHERN RAILWAY AND QUEEN & CRESCENT. 

Tn addition to the direct short line routes, tickets are obtainable via Hot Springs, N. C, along the French Broad River, 
Asheville, N . C, the beautifnl " Land of the Sky," with through car service between Cincinnati and Jacksonville, embra- 
cing Asheville, Columbia, S. C, Savannah, Ga.; also Brunswick by the Sea. Hence, for 

^S?^; The Southern Railway is Peerless. 



SCENERY, 



L. A. SHIPflAN, Florida Passenger Agent, 



M2 West Bay Street, Jacksonville, Fla, 



W. A. TURK, General Passenger Agent. 
C. A. BENSCOTKR, 
Assistant General Passenger Agent. 



S. H. HARDWICK, Assistant General Passenger Agent, 
W. H. TAVLOE, 
Assistant Gen. Pass. Agent, Louisville, Ky 



Information also £t Standard Guide Information Bureau, Hotel Cordova Round Tower, St. Augus:ine. 



^:':i;:/:k;:'^ . ^ 




I■l•.^^s^ I \ AM A .wioni'k — fK(_>m rui". siati'. dki'ak imkm. 

HEADQUARTERS AT 
WASHINGTON. ^ ^ 

npHE SOl'Tlli:k.\ KA1L^VA^' is the only Southern line havino- 
^ the general otiices ot its entire s\stein located in Washington. 
At 1300 Pennsyl\-ania A\'enue will he found the g-eneral office 
building of this s\"stem. 

1 his is ([uite an ach'antage to passengers going from an\- portion 
of the South and slopi)ing" at \\ ashington en route, because the)' can 
al\\a\s be assured of rtx'ei\"ing in this wa\' from the Southern Railwa)* 
the very best and most satisfactor)- attention. Hence most passen- 
gers going to aiul through Washington prefer to see that their tickets 
read "via tlu; Southern Railwa)'," as of course this great system 
al\va)'s oilers the; \-er)- best through trains between Washington and 
all points South and South\\-est. 1.. A. Siiii'M.w, bdorida Pas- 
senger Agent, 212 West i)<i)- Street. Jacksoin ille, bda. 

J. n. Culp, 'rr.ftlic Man:i<;er, M' . A. Turk, Ccncial I'assenser Agent, 

L. S. Brown, ('.t-neral Agent Passenger Department, jci; Kifteentli St., N.W., Washington, I). C. 



Information also at StaiidarJ Guide Information Iliireau, Hotel Cordova Round 'lower, .St. Augustine. 




RETURNING FROM 

FLORIDA tT south 



will find tho cliiiiatic extremes of the North aiul 
SoLith ideally blended at 

Richmond, Old Point Comfort, Ft. Monroe 
and Vir§:inia Beach, Va., 

where magnificent hotels will make a pleasant stay. 

From here the journey can he continued by 

the fast modern steamships of the 

OLD DOniNION LINE 



A sh 



[)rt, delightful sea trip, under the most favorable 
conditions of accommodations and cuisine. 



Buy tickets via O. D. S. S. Co., from Richmond 

or Norfolk to New York, or, if limit does not 

suit, to Norfolk or Richmond only. 

For full int'oiniation, rates, schedules, etc., apply 
to chief ticket offices of South, or 

OLD DOniNlON S. S. CO., 
Pier 26, North River, New York, N. Y. 

W. L. QUILLAUDEU, 

Vice-President and 
Traffic Manager. 




I oiii'tst Routes. 




ISTOHIG pOJO/^AC 



V ^ 



G- 







"ST.. 



NEW AND POPULAR ROUTE BETWEEN 



Washington, D. C, Old Point Comfort, Norfolk, 
Virginia Beach and the South. 

The new .uui mauniticent Steel Palace Steamers of thi-. line, tlie steamers "Newport News." "Norfolk" and 
"Washin'j;ton," most luxuriously fitted throughout, having Steam Heal in staterooms. Electric Lights and Call HelK. in 
each room, leave Norfolk and Washington daily on the following schedule : 



NORTHBOUND. 

Leave PORTSMOUTH 5 50 P. M. 

NORFOLK .. .6.10 •' 

FORTRESS MONROE 7.20 " 

Arrive ALEXANDRIA .... 6 00 A M. 
WASHINGTON 6.30 " 



SOUTHBOUND. 

Leave WASHINGTON 7 00 P M. 

' ALEXANDRIA . .. t.-^o " 
Arrive FORTRESS MONROE... .6.30A. M. 
NORFOLK 73c " 

" PORTSMOUTH 8.00 " 



Close connection made with all rail lines at Norfolk, Fortress .Monroe and Washington, D. C, for all points Nor :h. 
South, East and West. 

l'assen,i;ers going or returning to Wilmington, Raleigh. Charlotte, Charleston, Savannah, Atlanta, Jacksonville and 
principal Southern cities, are given an opportunity by this route to stop over at the National Capital. Fortress Monroe or 
Virginia Heach. 

Hy taking this route the passenger is afforded a pleasant ride on the Potomic River and Chesapeake Bay, thus breaking 
the monotony of an all-rail ride. 

The e-vcellence of the meals furnished on these magnificent steamers has been a great factor in their popularity. 
The dining-room service is a la carte, meals being served at hours convenient to the passengers 

Ask for tickets via the new Norfolk and Washington line of steamers. 

JNO. CALLAHAN, General Manager. 

Circulars of the Norfolk and Washington line also at the Standard Guide Information Bureau, St. Augustine. 



Tourist Routes. 




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While Rusticating: in Florida, ^ 

Decide to Visit J- ^ J- J' j§ 

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It 

^ Yellowstone Park i 

§8 Next Summer. ?8 

i ^ 

•2 Season : June ist to October ist. *• 

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o2 After May ist send six cents in stamps for WONDERLAND '0'^. io 

§S CHAS. S. FEE, Gen. Pass. Agent, St. Paul, Minn. 58 

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Circulars at Standard Guide Information Bureau, Hotel Cordova Round Tower, St. Augustine. 



Tourist Route. 



In All the World no Trip Like This ! 

If Comfort, Health, Ease and Enjoyment 

are considerations, the 

Most Desirable Summer Tours in the World 

are offered by the 

IVJ ORTHERN gTEAMSHIP (^O, 

Ooerating the tuo famous marvels of modern shipbuilding, 



"■ ■A 

♦ 



I NORTH WEST and NORTH LAND, 

..^ Between •."< 

BUFFALO and DULUTH. 




IKTH WFST 



Circulars at Standard (.'luidc information Di'.rcau, Hotel Conlova Hound Tower, St. Augustine. 



Romilar Landins^s at CLEVELAND, DF.TROl r, M.ACKINAC LSLAND and SAULT STE. 
MARIH. 

Not an Ounce of Freight carried on these Steamships. They are for Passeneers Exclusively, making 
railway speed through Nature's Scenic Paradise, and aftording passengers a service equal to that of America's 
best hotels 

Season of 1898 opens June 14. Send two-cent stamp for Beautifully Illustrated Summer Book 

For special information a ;dres> 

VV. C. FARRINGTON, Vice=Pres. I. n. BORTLE, Gen'l Pass. Agt. 

BUFFALO, N. Y. 



Toitrist Routes. 




SCENIC LINE OnilE WORLD 

"ENva^RloORANDCRR.xg 




The Populci^r Throu(^h Car Line to 

UTAH.CALIFORNIA 
andtheNPRTHWEST 



foRM H 



For full information, descriptive pamphlets, etc.. address 
S. K. HOOPER. G . P. A.. Denver. Colo. 



CONNECTIONS 

SAN FRANCISCO. PORTQND, 
SEATTLE ^ND TACOMA 

WITH ALL STfAM snip LINES FOR 

KLONDIKE 



1 our ist R u tcs. 






Che Only Cranscontincntal One Passing Direcily through 
SALT LAKE CITY 

IS 'I'lIE 



* 
* 
* 
* 
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* 



I RIO GRANDE WESTERN RAILWAY. I 



% <"""--^ - - - - -ii, 

/f^ scenerv in the world. It is the diicct route to the Pacific Coast via i^ 



* 

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i 

YW Rio Cirande Western Kailwa\- otteis choice ui thiee distinct ^ 
thi'ouuh the Rockv Mountains and tlie most nia^niticent if; 



¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ 



Through 



Sleeping 



Cars, 



Denver 



to 



Portland. 



¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ 




UMJiiii'-' ' Li '-'' 



¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ 



Through 



Sleeping 



Cars, 



Denver 



to 



San Francisco. 



SALT LAKK CITY, U. S A. 
On line Rio Grande Western Railway. 



* 
* 



Denver. (A)lorado Springs, Manitou, Leadvilie and Salt Lake City 



~^ For pamphlets, rates, etc., address 



F. A. WADLEIGH, =W, 

General Passenger Agent, Salt Lake City. ^CW 



Circulars at Standard Guide Information Bureau, Hotel Cordova Round Tower, St. Augustine. 



Tottrist Routes. 



i 

i 
i 



Through Sleeping Car 



Via 
the 




Jacksonville to St. Louis 

Without change of any kind. 
^ ^ ^ %i ^ ^ 

THROUGH SLEEPINQ CAR SERVICE 

Jacksonville to Chicag^o, 

With no Lii:int;L' except from one car to the otlier on same train while en 
route, which only change can be made as early as 7.4^ P. M. Through 
berths sold, Jacksonville to Chicago. Cafe car service into Chicago. 

-e^ ^ » <» * * 

THE ROUTE OF THE CAR. 

Plant System from Jacksonville; Central of Georgia Railway from 
Albany; Kansas Citv, Memphis & Birmingham R. R. from Birming- 
ham; Illinois Central from Holly Springs. 



P 

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5* 



5* 
5* 



Information concernini; this line can be had of Railroad Ticket Agents in Florida and at the 
Stand-ird (luide Information lUirean, St. A.ugiistine. 



J ouris( Routes. 



When You Go Home 



.J$i^\\iMi%.m. 



Queen 

AND 

Crescent 

ROUTE 

FINEST TRAINS IN 



It will pay )ou handsomely to see 
that your tickets read via the 

Queen & Crescent Route* 

The IHorida Limited is a solid vestibuled train of the 
highest type, and runs daily Jacksonville to Cincin- 
nati. Carries also a Pullman sleeper Tampa to Cincinnati, and one 
Jacksonville to Louisville and St. Louis. 

This train runs via V . C. & P. to Everett, and Southern Railway 
to Chattanooga. Through Pullman service also Jacksonville and 
Savannah, throu<T-h Columbia and Asheville, to Cincinnati. 



CINCINNATI'S GRAND HOTEL 



Fronting on 

Fourth, 

Central Avenue 

and 
Third Streets. 




m 



iiiiii'S 



r lil M,iiiiiiiiil''i"iir''fi|,,jiii^3^jl|l II*? SilSiJiiiMrif rri 






NllU- 



iniiiXSIi 



Tliird Stieet 

entrance opposite 

Union Railway 

Station. 



■ J.H.SMITH-Ca CIN 



l-.I.KCTKK < Aks Al.l I'AKIS ( ITV AM) Sl'BrRHS. 

American Plan, $3 per day and upward. European Plan, $1.50 per day and upward. 

KXCHI.LKNT PHSTAL'RANT AM) CAFE. 

THE A. G. CORRE HOTEL CO., Proprietors. D. C. SHEARS, Vicc-Pres. and Gen. Manager. 

circulars at Standard Guide Information Bureau, Hotel Cordova Round Tower, St. Augustine. 



Philadelphia Hotels. 








wi±.ViMl-''''' 



GREEN'S 

European Hotel 

8th and Chestnut Streets, 
PHILADELPHIA, PA. 



Most centrally located in the very heart of the shopping- district, near post office 
and all principal tlieaters. 

250 Rooms, from $1.00 to $1.50 per Day, 

FOR LADIES AND GENTLEMEN. 
ALL MODHRN CONVHNIENCES. A THOROUGH UP-TO-DATE HOTEL. 

MAHLQN W> NEWTON^ Proprietor. 

TOE^Amr;^^ 

Chestnut St. above 19th St., Philadelphia. 

Rooms, $J.OO to $5.00 per day, European plan; and 
$3.50 to $6.00 per day, American plan. 

.}i J*. ^ ^ ^ 

S. MURRAY MITCHELL, - Proprietor. 

For Tourists, Householders, Individuals, Remitters, in 
short for any one having to spend money, the " Dollar 
Checks " of the C'heciue Bank, Ltd., are superior. They are 
in amounts from ^2 to $200 ; issued singly or in books of as- 
sorted amounts ; filled in and signed by purchaser 
for any amount not exceeding the face value; his 
own check, yet certified by the Cheque Bank, paid 
by the lUmk of New York. Same system as the cele- 
brated Cheque Bank cheques, which are in pounds 
sterling. Sold by agents everywhere, and by the 
Agency of the Cheque Bank, Limited, 40 and 42 
Wall Street. Fredkrick W. rKRRv, Manager. 

Checks are also sold at the Standard Guide Information Bureau, St. Augustine. 

Circulars at Standard Guide Information Bureau, Hotel Cordova Round Tower, St. Augustine. 






Jonrist Resorts. 



TI15 NEW MATHEWSON,NarragansettPier,R.l 




The iiiost iiiddcrn hotel on the coa'-t. Widest kunwn hotel piazza in the wniKl, mi, i:, nf a mi].: 

loni:. Send for descriptive booklet. 

S. W. MATHEWSON, Jr., Manager, 260 Fourth Ave., New York City. 

GOLFING AT THE RESORTS. 



Tourists and others desiriiiti^ to know cf llu- opportunities for playing golf at the 
various rt-sorts, botli North antl South, will !nul trustworthy information, obtained by 
actual observation, in 



GOLFING, 



the ottiiial or^aii ot the spoil. .\ detailed tleseription of any course niav be obtained 
by addressing (with stamp inclosed) the editor of "dolfing," New ^'oI•k. 

••r.olfnig" is pnblisiied monthly by the CioUhig Co.. at io_^ ^^'est 42(.l Street, New 
\ ork. The price is twenty cents a copy, two dollars a year. It is sold by all news- 
dealers. 

r.e>ides the resort features, each issue contains numerous Illustrated Descriptive 
and Practical .\rticles. Stories, \'erses. Correspondence, Discussions of the Rules of 
CK)lf, and the Official News of the United States, the Royal Canadian, and the Inter- 
collegiate (iolf Associations. 

See ''(iollhig" for I'ebruary, 1898, for " (ioif in I'lorida. Illustrated." 

Circulars at Standard Ciuidc Information Bureau. Hotel Co dova Round Tower, St. .\ugustine. 



Washington Hotels. 




T"E SHOREHAM, Washington. D. C. 



AMERICAN AND EUROPEAN PLANS. 



THE SHOREHAM is most advantageously situated, being in the 
center of the most fashionable section of the city, accessible 
from all points of interest, within five minutes' walk ol the Executive 
Mansion, and of the War, Navv. State and Treasury Departments. 
An absolutely fireproof hotel. 

JOHN T. DEVINE. 

Information of the Shoreham also at the Standard Guide Information Bureau, St. Augustine. 



J I \is:Iii)io;to]i I loUls. 



^ ■ ■■JjL "^^^ 



Pennsylvania Ave. 
and I2^Ji St., N. W. 
WASHINGTON, 
D. C. 

^ >'■ 



EUROPEAN PLAN. 

ENTIRE CONSTRUCTION ABSOLUTELY FIREPROOF. 

Elegant Restaurant lor Ladies and (ientlenicn. Li;x- 
urious Cafe lor (lentlemen. Kverything- 
Kntircl)- New. Most Crntral 
Location in the Citw 

T. .1. TAI/I Y, Hana^er. 






The Hamilton, 

Corner Fourteenth and K Street.s, 
WASHINGTON, D. C. 

A tnst-(.l;iss family and transient liotel, 
modern in all its appointments. Beaiitit'ully 
located. Rates, $2.^o and S'^.oo per day. 
Special rates by the week, American plan. 

BALL & POLLARD, Proprietors. 




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This hotel is loc;itcd in the 



^ l^f^E BUCl^lNdHAM, : '''lest section of the citv. on 

^^B%^Xh^ Square. It has the appoint- 

^ ments ol a strietlv lirst-class 
hotel, and is an especially desirable home lor tourists. 

AMERICAN PLAN, $2.00 TO $4.00 PER DAY. 

A. L. BLISS, Proprietor. 

Circulars of the Raleigh, Haniiltun nad Buckingham at the Mandani Guide iMfdrmatioii ISuieau, St. Augustine. 



Tourist Resorts. 



^ THE COCHRAN. ^ 

FOURTEENTH AND K STREETS, N. W. 

WASHINGTON, D. C. 

t(?* 5^* 5(^ !(?* 

The Cochran is the latest uptown hotel erect- 
ed, anil is a model for coiivcuiciicc of an-ii/igciiic/if, 
both t'/i siiih' and sini.de apartments, with or with- 
out baths. It is situated in the fashionable 
center of tlie city and opposite l^'ranklin Square, 
the most beautiful of Washington's many attract- 
ive parks. 

Apartments may be secured for any given time, 
and transient guests will be elegantly and com- 
fortal)ly provided for. 

GEORGE W. COCHRAN, Proprietor. 




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HYGEIA HOTEL, Old PoiniComfort, Va. 



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m The famous Hygeia is the most comfortiljle and desirably siruated hotel at Old Point Comfort, and the ly» 

6 only one possessing Tnrkish, Russian, Electric and Hot Sea Ba'hs. It has a water frontage of nearly an (yi 

9 eighth of a mile, is situated within a few yards of the water's edge and commands an unobstructed view of ^ 

<% the world-renowned Hampton Roads and lower Chesapeake Bay. _ ly* 

(fe» It is open throughout the year, and provides first-class accommodations and every facility for comfort and %jt 

© pleasure. It has hot ard cold sea and fresh water, Turkish, Russian and Electric baths, and rooms en suite con- ty* 

% sisting of parlor, bedroom and bath, or single, to suit the convenience of guests. Nearly all rooms are of good ^ 

© size, well ventilated and delightfully situated. . . %i> 

(^ The Hygeia has all the latest conveniences, electric lights, steam h'at, open giates, sanitary plumbing, etc., ^ 

^ and is an ideal resort for those in search of health or pleasure. Send for illustrated pamphlet. ii^ 

® F. N. PIKE, Proprietor. A. C. PIKE, Manager. ^ 

Circulars at Standard C.uide Information Bureau, Hotel Cordova Round Tower, St. .\ugustine. 




Tourist Resorts. 

I THE HOT SPRINGS OF ARKANSAS. \ 

*■ ^^i^^ pBH^ /^^g* Only Health and Pleasure Resort < 

J ^^^^H^^ OWNED BY AND CONDUCTED | 

> ^j/^^^Si^ Under the Direct Supervision of < 

I ^m^ The UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT | 
t THE ARLINGTON HOTEL \ 

» (loi Alin ON rill', (;()\ I'-.K.NMI'N I' kl',Si:i<\" A I h in) ^ 

J IS OPEN THE YEAR ROUND. 5 

{ THE MAnnOTH HOTEL EASTMAN ; 

1^ (ac( oMMiiDA riNc; i,(«)o r.i i-sis) < 

♦ IS OPEN FROM JANUARY TO MAY. \ 

\ Service at both Innises S I KU TL\' FIRST CLASS. 4 

1^ PALATIAL BATHING DEPARTHENTS IN CONNECTION. <i 

^ Correspondence solicited. Illustrated pamphlets sint on application. Address tI 

♦ LYMAN T. HAY, Hanaser, Hot Sprinsfs, Ark. * 

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The Carlsbad 



of America. 



Springs,^ ^ g 

g Under the Direct Control of the United States Government. ^ 

^ QITUATFI) in the heart of the O/aik Mountains, with a deli.uhtliil ^ 

Q. <3 climate, this is the greatest Health and Pleasure Resort in the Q 

Q World. Descriptive pamphlets and oltieial guide to Hot Springs ■© 

Q mailed tiee on application to u, 

g H. C TOWNSEND, H 

Q, General Passenger and Ticket Agent Iron Mountain Route, q^ 

8 St. Louis, Mo. Q. 

Circulars at Standard Ciuide Information Bureau, Hotel Co'dova Round Tower. St. .\ugustine. 



Washingtoji Hotels. 



THE ST. JAMES, European, 







WASHINGTON, 

D. C. 

Corner Penn. Av. & 6th St. 

Best family hotel at 
the National Capital. 
We make you feel at 
home on arrival. Sin- 
gle rooms $1.00 per day 
and upwards ; suites, 
with bath, $3,00 to 
$6.00. Appointments 
of Ladies' and Gentle- 
nien's Cafe and Dining- 
Room up to date. Ele- 
vator, steam heat and 
fire escapes. 

LEVI WOODBURY, Prop. 
H. T. WHEELER, Manager. 



National Hotel, 

Corner Sixth Street and Penna. Ave. 
WASHINGTON, D. C. 

The National Hotel, iiaving been leased by 
the present proprietor, and entirely renovated 
from top to bottom, now offers superior ad- 
vantages to the traveling public. 

A new and complete system of steam heat- 
ing and electric lighting has been instituted, 
and many new bath-rooms have been added. 
Being opposite the Pennsylvania Depot, and 
in the center of the business district, it offers 
special facilities to commercial travelers. 

The house is run on the American and Eu- 
ropean plans. 

RATES: 

American Plan, $2.50 per day up. 
European Plan, $1.00 per day up. 

WALTER BURTON, Manager. 

O. G. STAPLES, Proprietor. Proprietor. 

Circulars of the St. James, National and Riggs House at Standard Guide Information Bureau, St. Augustine. 



RiGGS^ House, 

Cor. 1 5th and G Sts., N. W. 

Opposite U. S. Treasury and one block from the 
White House. 

WASHINGTON, D. C. 



This hotel has the most advantageous and 
convenient location of any of the up-town 
iiotels. The proprietor has recently made 
many improvements, including the addition 
of a steam-heating plant throughout the house. 

Tile table is unsurpassed and the ratei 
moderate, $-;.oo per day up. 

An illustrated guide to Washington will be 
mailed free of charge upon receipt of four 
cents in ^tamps. 

O. G. STAPLES, 



ToiiJ-isl Rcsor/s. 

HOTEL BON AIR, ^ .^ ..^ Augusta, Georgia. 




An elegant modern hntel. recently enlarged and refurnishedj situated in the uplands of Georgia, midway between 
Washington and the South, acknowledged to be one of the healthiest sections in the United States. It is a delightful place 
to break the journey between the North and South ; and for those accustomed to the severe weather of the North it will be 
found a healthier climate than that of more southerly latitudes. Average winter temperature, 54°. 

For rates and full particulars address C. Q. TRUSSELL. 








Wj\StiIMCjTOH, DC. 



FORMCRLY WELCKERS. 

European Plan, $i.oo per day and up. 
American Plan, $3.00 per day and up. 



i5lh St., near U.S. Treasury, 



First=Class Restaurant and Cafe. 
Transient and Permanent Quests. 

I.. M FITCH, Proprietor. 

Information of the Miami, Conolly and \\elliiigt:;n at the Standard Guide Information Bureau, St. Augustine. 



THE STANDARD GUIDE TO WASHINGTON. 

No cliaplers devoted to Noah and the Flood. Practical, timely information for the 
tourist of to-day. Helps one to see Washington intelligently. Pictures — more than 
100. Handsome souvenir. SoKl on trains, at hotel stands, everj-where ; 2; cents. 
Remember the name — STANDARD GUIDE. Flag on the cover. 



Tourist Resorts. 



HOBKif^K. 



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Don't jump from Florida heat to N(^rthern 
chill. Try the mellow })iney-wood air of Cam- 
den, South Carolina, and the comforts of The 
Hobkirk Inn. Booklet and Golf Links, of course. 



Address 



F. W. EbDl^EDGE, Ptropmetott. 



The Only Hodern Hotel in 
the City Centrally Located. 

THE LEXINGTON. 




American Plan: $2.50 to $4.00 per day. 
European Plan: $1.00 to $3.00 per day. 

A. D. ATKINSON, Proprietor. 
S. T. ATKINSON,. ;Manager. 

Corner Twelfth & Main Streets, 
RICHMOND, VA. 




UFTON COURT 

in quaint, historic Camden, is an old-fashioned 
South Carolina Mansion, recently opened for 
the reception of northern guests. Within its 
hospitable doors one finds every comfort of a 
well ordered hotel, with the atmosphere of a 
refined and cultivated home. 

Terms, $3.00 to $4 00 per Day ; 
$15.00 to $28.00 per Week. 
Special for Season. 

A booklet will be sent on request by 

MRS. PERKINS, PROPRIETOR. 



TJic Standard Guide. 



The Jefferson, S^ Richmond,^ 




THIS niat;nificent structure is destined to become one of the great attractions of the 
entire South and a powerful inducement to the great army of tourists to turn their 
steps in the direction of Richmond. It is a resort offering all the attractions to be found in 
the Northern hotels during summer and in the Southern hotels during winter, and the 
tourist will find it agreeable to stop and enjoy the equable climate of the location for a 
numl)cr of weeks or months when traveling either way, and avoid extreme changes of 
temperature. The hotel is located in the best residential portion of Richmond. 

The Jefferson is an entirely new building built of brick and terra cotta in the most sub- 
stantial manner, is on high ground and has plenty of light and air, and accommodations for 
500. It is a model of convenience in all its appointments and is planned to give the greatest 
amount <>f home comfort to those seeking it from evcrv direction — its chambers being 
furnislied luxuriously and tastefully with this object in view. 

Turkish, Russian, Roman and Electric Baths can be had in all their luxurv on the 
office floor. 

Transient rates on the American plan, $5 and upwards per day according to location. 

Rooms on the European plan. Si. 50 and upwards per dav. 

Connected with tlie hotel is one of the finest liveries south of New York. 

For further particulars, address 

e^ The Jefferson, Richmond, Va. 



Toicrist Resorts. 



VIRGINIA HOT SPRINGS. 

NEW HOMESTEAD HOTEL AND BATH HOUSE. 




Open all the year. Waters very beneficial to persons afflicted with Rheumatism, Gout, or Nervous 
/"roubles. On the Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad. Connections made at Richmond or Charlottesville, 
/a., going North. Fine Golf Links. 

FRED STERRY, Manager. 

Circulars at Standard Guide Information Bureau, Hotel Cordova Round Tower, St. Augustine. 

THE PINEY WOODS HOTEL, 

THOMASVILLE, GEORGIA 

I roi tirife I aridi e I a k) 




FiRST-CLASS IN 

Every Particul.ar 
Modern 
Appliances, 
Goon Roads, 
Excellent Livery, 
Beautielil Drives, 
Bicycle Paths, 
Golf Links, etc. 
Quail Shooting. 
W. E. DAVIES, 
Prop. 



fourist Resorts. 

Highland Park Hotel, Aiken, s. c. 




AIKEN has the driest climate east of the Rockies. Palmetto Oolf Links, largest south of New York. Tennis Courts, 
Polo Grounds, Fox Hunting and P.icvcling. Hotel has been completely renovated, and eighteen new suites cf rooms, con 
sistin'T of parlor, bedroom and bath, have been added. For rates and particulars address 

° ^ ' H. W. PRIEST, Aiken, S. C. 

ALL WELL-INFORMED TOURISTS VISIT 

Augusta, 6a., m m I^otcl Bon Jlir 

(ON THE SAND HILLS). 

The Georgia Railroad 



IS TIIK (>XL\' DIRIU'T I. INI'. IIF.TWEKX 

AUGUSTA, THE WEST, NORTHWEST, 
SOUTH AND SOUTHWEST. 

Harlem, (ia. (Rccil Ilnusci, is one of tlic most pleasant winter resorts in the South; loeatetl twenty- 
tive miles ucst ot AnL,nista, on tlic (Georgia Railroad. 

Union Point, Greensboro, Madison and Washington, Ga., are among tlio most pleasant 
winter resorts on the Georgia Railroad. 

Schedules, maps and general information lurnished upon application to the undersigned. 

See tiiat your tickets read over the Georgia Railroad, between Augusta and Atlanta. 

JOE W. WHITE, T. P. A. A. G. JACKSON, G. P. A. 

No. 723 Broad Street, Augusta, Ga. 
J. A. THOMAS, C. T. & P. A. J. F. ANDERSON, G. W. A. 

No. 8 Kimball House, .Atlanta, Ga. St. Louis, flo. 

Information of the routes and resorts named on this pace :it the Stan<lard (luidc Information Bureau. 



7^021)' isi Routes. 

SOUTH CAROLINA & GEORGIA R.R. 

"THE CHARLESTON LINE." 
DOUHLK DAILY TRAINS BHTWEEN 

Charleston, Columbia, Augusta and Aiken. 

Only Line between Charleston, Summerville, Camden and Aiken. 

SOLID THROUGH TRAINS BETWEEN CHARLESTON 
AND ASHEVILLE, "THE LAND OF THE SKY." j* 

Only Route w^ith Through Sleepers bet'ween Charleston and Atlanta, and Through Pull- 
man Sleepers between Charleston and St. Louis, via Atlanta, Chattanooga and Nashville. 

Pullman Sleepers between Augusta, Aiken and New York. 

Aiken, S. C, 565 feet above sea level, has a delightful climate of an average temperature, from November 
to April, of 53.10" , and relative humidity of 57.80". There are pleasant drives, and with the Highland Park 
Hotel, the convenient schedules and sleeping car lines, both West and North, there is no pleasanter place to 
spend the winter. Only twenty-two hours from Ne,v York 

Camden, S. C, is situated in the piney sandhills, 240 feet above tide water. Visitors speak in terms of 
sincerest praise of the sunny sky ; the pure, cool spring water; the atmosphere that, always dry and balmy, 
and permeated with the balsamic odors of the pines, is never so warm as to be debilitating, and is never tinged 
with penetrating cold, 

Summerville, S. C, is delightfully situated just twenty miles north of Charleston, and is reached by 
trains at almost any hour in the day. Here will be found the pine woods odor so much sought after by those 
affected with lung or throat troubles. A beautiful modern hotel, the Pine Forest Inn, with all conveniences 
and comforts, and charmingly located, will welcome guests. The climate is delightful, being removed just 
far enough from the salt air to make it the suburban resort of the citizens of Charleston. 

W. H. EVANS, C. P. & T. A., Charleston Hotel, Charleston, S. C. L. A. EMERSON. T. M. 

'There's no place like Charleston." 

Do not fail to visit this his- 
toric and interesting city. 

Outdoor amusements. Well-kept golf links. Cycling 

over miles of shell road. Finest winter 

climate in America. 

CHARLESTON HOTEL. 

Strictly First Class, affording all Modern Conveniences, 
A. IRVING DAVIDS. 





FORT SIM I I K 



Tourist Re so }' Is. 



Winter Resort. 



Summer Resort. 



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Ipine jfoiest ITnii, ©cean Ibouse, 



SUMMERVILLE, J- 
SOUTH CAROLINA. 



WATCH HILL, ot 
RHODE ISLAND. 



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A first-cliss winter resort in every respect. 
Electric lights, elevator and all modern improve- 
ments for comfort, cor.-, enience and pleasure. 
Climate uncu. passed. 

J^ QOL.KIX(l ^ 

and all other popular amusements. 

Situated on the South Carolina and Georgia Rail way, 
twenty-two miles from Charleston, S. C. 

For terms and circulars, address 

J, F. CHAMPLIN, Manager, Summerville. S. C. 



AX/ATCH niLTy is a charming summer home. It 
' ' has the great natural advanta.ge of being 
;i1 most entirely surrounded by water — Ocean, Sound, 
Hay and River. 'I'hei e are no marshes anywhere to 
bring malaria. 'I'he beach is a beautiful expanse of 
sand, with picturesque rocks and a lovely undulating 
country as a background. The air is alwavs cool 
and bracing, coming as it does, on all sides, directly 
from the open sea. The temperature is never in the 
least oppressive. 

A fine new Tennis Court and Athletic Grounds 
have been provided for the Guests of the Ocean 
House and the facilities for Hoating, Hathing, Fishing 
and Driving are unsurpassed at this place. Guests 
of Ocean House may become members of the Mis- 
quamicut (iolf Club, whose links are famed for ther 
interest and beauty, upon the payment of moderate 
dues. 

For terms, &c., address 

J. F. CHAMPLIN, Proprietor. 



THE COLUMBIA, 

COLUMBIA, SOUTH CAROLINA. 




Opened to the public in November, 
1897, The Columbia is a thoroughly 
modern house, embodying; in con- 
.struction and equipment all that a 
successful hotel experience could 
suggest. Tourists who ma\' arrange 
tor a stay in this interesting and 
beautiful capital city of South 
Carolina will find in THE COLUMBIA 
a commodious, comfortable and well- 
kept house. 



For terms, address XT. K. XIX(")X. T'^rcoprietor. 



Sanitai'iunis. 

THE GLEN SPRINGS, Watkins Qlen, N. Y. 




A Resort for those seeking Health, Rest or Pleasure. 

A Sanatorium where rest, recreation and restoration to liealtli may be gained under skilled medical 
care. All approved forms of Ilydrotherap}-, including 

Hot Neptune Brine Baths and Carbonated Neptune Brine Baths 

(the Schott treatment), as given at tlie cele- 
lirated Nauheim Baths, for Gout, Rheuma- 
tism, Neuralgia, Sciatica, Diseases of the Ner- 
vous System, and of the Heart and Kidnevs. 

Also Electricity in every form, Massage, 
Swedish Movements, Turkish and Russian 
Baths. 

VALUABLE MINERAL 
SPRINGS, 

Muriated, Alkaline, Chalybeate, lodo-Bromated 
and Brine, especially efficacious in Disorders of 
I)igestion, Clouty Conditions, Diabetes, Ann-- 
mia. Nervous Diseases, and Chronic Affections 
of the Kidneys. 

VIEW FIOM THE GI.EN SPRINGS PARK. 

CLIHATE MILD, DRY AND EQUABLE. NO MALARIA. NO HAY FEVER. 

Location overlooks thirty miles of Seneca Lake. Si.xty acres of Private Park , Coif Links, Tennis 

Courts, Bowling Alleys, etc. 

All the Appointments of a first-class Hotel. A Medical Staff of Experienced Physicians 

No insane or other objectionable cases received. Send for Illustrated Book. 

WM. E. LEFFINGWELL, Manager, Watkins, N. Y. 

Circulars also at the St.andard Guide Information Bureaus. 




Lakcwood Hotels. 

THE LAUREL HOUSE, 

OF liAKEWOOD, H. J., 

1> A 

Famous Hotel in a Famous Resort of the Central East^ 



i;(irii iiwiNC (.AIM h 
PUBLIC FAVOR THROUGH MANY YEARS OF SUCCESS. 

T.akcwood's climate |H"rinits and its facilities eiu-ourasre ('.olfmi;-, Drivinj^, Ridings 
1 )ra,i;' llunlinL;' and (A'clini^ tlin)iii;h()Ut tlu; fail, winti-r and sjiriiiL;' months. 

'J'lie J.aurel House supplies to its guests everv comfort and hixiirv which has come 
to be expected in the first-class American hotel. 

IHE LAUREL HOUSE 15 OPEN FROH OCTOBER TO JUNE. 

DAVID B, PLUMER, Manager. 

Lakewoodt New Jersey* 

LAUREL=IN=THE=P1NE5 

Accommodations for 350 Quests. 

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Lakcwood is 59 miles south of New \'()rk, and is well 
known as a resort for health and pleasure. Golf Links, 
Cross Countr}' IvidiiiL;-, l)ie\clini;'. and miles of Beautiful 
Dri\"es and Walks ofter L;reat inducements for outdoor life. 

HORACE PORTER, Manager. 



Circulars also at the StaniLud Kuidc Informalinn Burc.uis. 



Chattaiiooo'a and Nciv Orleans. 



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^ Read House 



^) Site of the Histonc 

i) Cmtchfield House. 



Jf. Artesian Well ^ \ 
Water 
used tliroughout 

the Hotel. 
Private Baths. 



CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. 7, 

Opposite Union Depot. •-'* -** •-•* -^ ^ 



\ -^ Finest Turkish -J* ^ 




lined tubs. 



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Elfctric Cars pass the Hotel lor Lookout Mountain, Mission Ridge, ValJoinbrosa and all sulnir 
Rates according to location of rooms. - - SAM'L R. READ, Manager. 



NEW ORLEANS. 

■Quaint, Historic New Orleans. J* ^ ^* .* Queen City of the South. 

nr'HE Mecca of tourists in seaicii oi health, 
■*■ recreation and pleasure, combining tiie ad- 
vantages of a large city, its theaters, French 
opera, racing, etc., witii a climate more equable 
and salubrious than either Florida or (California. 

THF NFW 

St. Charles Hotel, 

One of the latest and best in the country. 
ABSOLUTELY FIREPROOF. 

500 rooms, single or en suite. '-** 150 private bath-rooms. 

New luxurious Turkish and Russian Baths. 

First-class in every respect, with every modern appliance tor comfort and convenience. Open-air (irom- 
enade in sunshine or shade. Pure tiistilled (.irinking water. 

AMERICAN PLAN : 

Transient Rates, $3.00 per day upwards. Liberal reduction by the week, month or season. 

ANDREW R. BLAKELY & CO., Limited, Proprietors. 

^P~ Get descriptive folder of the St. Ctiarlcs at the Siaiidard Guide Iiiformatinn Bureau, St. Augustine. 




Jonrisf Rrsnrfs. 



KENILWORTH INN, 



BILTMORE (Asheville) 
NORIH CAROLINA. 




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HE KENII/WORTM INN stands on a beautiful plateau at an elevation of 2.340 feet above the sea level, 
overlooking the city of Asheville and the beautiful French Rroad and the Swannanoa. Biltmore (to which 
tickets should be purchased and baggage sent) is a convenient stopping place for tourists. The house is 
equipped with electric lights, open hi'e-places, steam beat, elevators, and hasaccommodations for 300 guests. 

For further particulars, address Linsley & Kittredge, Kenilworth Inn, Biltmore, N. C. 




OAKS ^ HOTEL, 

Asheville, North Carolina. 

Table first class. Hot and cold baths. Steam hi-at. 
Splendid views from balconies. ]5eauti''ul la.vns, terraces 
and shade trees. Best location n citv. Street cars from 
(k'])(it to liotcl terrace. Three blocks from Court Square. 
I'p-to-tlate service. I'ree billiartis. Moderate rates. 

Opens January l, 1898, foi the Seasons of 1898. 
SAMUEL H. REED, Owner and Proprietor. 
LoNcly Spot to Spend the Summer in the \Vood.>>. 

HOTEL CHILDWOLD AND COTTAGES, 

ON LAKE MASSAWEPIE, ADIRONDACK MOUNTAINS. 

Open from June 15 to October 1. 

It is an attractive game and pleasure preserve. Charmingly situated in the wilderness of the Adiron- 
dacks. yet easy of access. Nine hours from New York City via New York Central & Hudson River 
Railr ad. Have nice camp sites to lease. Clolf and tennis and ball grounds, bowling allev. billiard 
room. Fine casino lor music, dancing, preaching, and theatrical and other entertainments, llotel will 
open "une m. For particulars address 

CHAS. E. LELAND, Manager, 

\Yindsor Hotel, New \ ovk. .\(ter June 1, Massawcpie, N. Y, 
O FRED SCOFIELD, Metropolitan Hinlding, New York City. 
Circulars at Standard (iuide Information Bureau. Hotel Cordova Round Tower, St. Augustine. 



Jacksonville Hotels. 




THE ST. JAMES. 



OVERLOOKING ST. JAMES PARK. 
Accommodations for soo Guests. 



Jacksonville, Florida. 
J. R. Campbell. 



JACKSONVILLE, FLA. 

GRAND VIEW HOTEL. 



Cooks and Help selected from 
White Mountain Resorts. 

TABLE HIGH CLASS. 



*• 
* 
¥ 



Neatness and Home Comforts 
a Leading Feature. 

TERMS VERY REASONABLE 



Open November 15 to May \. Rates, $2.G0 per day and upwards. 

Send for circular. Address 

G. W. SMITH, Proprietor 



]4oTELi St. Eiimo. 



Tile Hotel St. Elmo is beautifully situated on the west l^ank of the celebrated St. John's River at Green 
Cove Springs, better known as the Parlor City of Florida on account of its cleanliness and beauty. 

There are pretty cottages in the iinnirdiaic vicinity of the hotel and at the service ol its gLiests, should 
they prefer them to tlie main building. 

MR. JUDSON L. SCOTT will continue the management which proved so satisfactory la^t season. 

The cuisine is all that could be desired, and is served by attendants tried and reliable. 

Terms, $2.50 to $3.00 per day. Special to Families. 

dUDSON li. SCOTT, Manager. 

Circulars at Standard fiuidc Information L.nreau. Hotel Cordova Round Tower, St. Augustine. 



Tourist Rcsorls. 




Magnolia Springs Hotel 

Magnolia Springs, Florida. 

This well-known resort, whose fame has been long established, is situated on the St. 
John's River, twenty-eight miles south of Jacksonville, in one of the most desirable and 
healthful locations in Florida, and is reached by tlie Jiicksonville, Tampa & Key West 
Railroad from that place ; also by two daily lines of steamboats on the St. John's River. 

Magnolia Springs is absolutely free from mosquitoes. The drainage is perfect, and 
the supply of water for all uses is lavish, and unsurpassed for purity and excellence by anv 
known table wtiter. In fact, it can be safely said Magnolia .Springs is one of the most 
healthful and beautiful winter resorts in the world. 

Five cottages otfer families who iirefer cottage life, without the trouble of housekeep- 
ing, an opportunity of indulging tlicir taste. Cuisine and service are of the highest order. 
Fish and game abound licrc. 

flDaonolia Spvino XL(Ilatci\ 

One of the greatest attractions wliich Magnolia Springs has to offer is its Mineral 
Spring, situated in the grounds and free to all. There are but few places so favored, even 
in this great country, as to have a perfectly pure water to offer their guests, and this fact is 
so well iip])reciated by tlie liotel kcejiers of the South, that Magnolia Spring Water is now to 
be found at nearly all the leading hotels in that section. A swimming pool and baths of 
this water are provided and found to be of great benefit to those suffering with rlicumatic 
troubles of any descrii^tion. 

The Hagnolia Springs Hotel is conducted by the O. D. SEAVEY CO., with Mr. 
O. D. SEAVEY in personal charge and Mr. WILLIAM F. INGOLD as Hanager. 



S^. Augustine Hotels. 




^ THE ST. GEORGE e^ 

ST. AUGUSTINE, FLA. 

Is a first-class family an^. transient hotel, 
accommodating about one hundred and 
twenty-five guests; located in the very 
center of the city, overlooking the Plaza, its 
iU^iti^ own handsome and spacious grounds and 
those of the old Episcopal Church adjoin- 
ing; the Ponce de Leon, Casino, Ba\', Post 
Office, etc., being within close proximity. 
The St. George is substantially built of 
wood — -three stories only — upon the highest natural elevation in the 
old city; stands high above the ground, and is thoroughly dry and 
healthful. The main fronts are to the South and West, with some 
three hundred feet of broad, vine-embowered piazzas. 

A four-inch artesian well supplies an abundance of purest water 
for all purposes. The sanitary arrangements are new throughout 
the house, rendering it perfect and strictly up to date in this impor- 
tant particular. 

No pains or expense will be spared in keeping up the high reputa- 
tion always maintained 
by the St. George for 
excellence in cuisine 
and service. 



Rates: Transient gfwests, 
$2.50 per day and upward. 
Permanent guests, $15.00 
and $ J 7.50 per week for 
singfle rooms. $25.00 to 
$35.00 per week for two per- 
sons occupying one room, 
according to size and loca- 
tion of same, and length 
of stay. 




JOHN JAY BENSON, 

Manager. 



MR5. C. D. TYLER, 

Owner and Proprietor. 



Circulars at Standard Guide Information Bureau, Hotel Cordova Round Tower, St Augustine. 



SL Auyiislinc 1 1 at els. 

THE FLORIDA, St. Augustine, Florida. 




This hotel is upon the higliest natural ground in the center of the city, and the most convenient to places of amusement 
and interest. A large hotel, with the best service; dry and admirably located, givuig the comforts without the ct>st of the 
more expensive ones. The water used for drinking and cooking has been long known for its superiority. Elevator, ste.im 



heat, gas, electric bells and all modern conveniences. Rates reduced from $4 to $2 and $3 per day. Special 
ekiy rates. 
W. W. PALnER, Manager, late Prop, Magnolia Hotel. 



M to 
J. T. SKILES, Prop., formerly Luray Inn. 

( nciilars at Staiid.ird (iiiidL- 1 nfcjrniation Bureau, Hotel Cordova Round Tower, St. Augustine 



THE KEYSTOrlE, 

A%^ Under the Arch between the Towers 
' ' of the Cordova, on King Street. <^ -^ 



clianu ot" llic Kcv.stoiu- i.s lliat il i.s so 
tlcliyiitfnlly uiuonventioiial; one feels that this 
is not an ordinary shop, hut a place of pretty things. 
The same (juality marks the goods shown here. 
They are choice in selection, artistic, and of reaE 
worth. Souvenir Sj^oons and Orange Knives,. 
Colored Photographs, articles of Alligator Leather,, 
iWinied Leather and Native Woods — this is hut to 
)egin the long list. Teiiney's candies are received 
direct from New \()rk. All the new books, maga- 
zines and the latest fashions in stationery. Ar. 
attractive place to while awav an hour in St. 
.Xui'ustine. 




The Keystone, 

HOTEL CORDOVA, 

Between the Towers. 



Circulars of all the above also at the Standard Ouide Informa:'on I'.ureau, St. .Augustine 



S/. A ito-jistijie Hotels. 




THE MAGNOLIA HOTEL, 

St. George Street^ St* Augustine* 

The Magnolia Hotel is 
on St. George street, in one 
of the quaintest and most 
picturesque quarters of St 
Augustine, 'i'he location 
is most central and con- 
venient. It is but a step 
to Plaza or Ba}-, or to Fort 
Marion, on whose green 
are the (iulf Links. Just 
north is the City Gateway, 
and in the west, equally 
nearby, are the Ponce de 
I.eon group and the Ala- 
meda. The Magnolia win- 
dows command on the east 
far-reaching views of bay 
and ocean, while from the 

verandas on the west one looks out upon charming masses of foliage, and dome 

and tower and pinnacle rising against the sky. 

The Magnolia has always enjoyed popularity as the most homelike of the larger 

houses here, and that character is sustained under the present management. The 

building, in the attractive Queen Anne style, is modern in all respects, and is fur- 
nished with every equipment that makes for comfort and ccjnvenience. The 

Magnolia is under the management 

of Mr. George C. Howe, who found 

at the end of last season, his third 

successful year in the Hotel Buck- 
ingham, that his business had far 

outrun the limits of that well-known 

establishment, and that it was a 

prime necessity to provide more 

extensive quarters for the public, 

his patrons and their friends. It 

has been his great good fortune to 

secure the attractive and popular 

Magnolia Hotel, which enables him 

to combine the Magnolia Hotel and 

the Hotel Buckingham together 

under his own management. 



THE MACNOI.IA. 




PORCH OF TIU'. MAGNOLIA. 



Circulars at Standard Guide Information Bureau, Hotel Cordova Round Tower. St. Augustine. 



I 

S/. Auc^ustinc Hotels. 

THE BUCKINGHAM HOTEL, 

Granada Street^ St. Augustine. 




The Buckingham, on 
Granada street, between 
the Ponce de Leon and 
the Alcazar, is in the 
very center of thebriUiant 
life for which St, Augus- 
tine is distinguished; and 
yet set amid its palms is 
charmingl)- retired and 
cozy, and has a distinct- 
ive character of its own. 
This is the fourth season 
of the Buckingham, It 
has been under one man- 
agement from the begin- 
nmor, that of Mr. George 



THK BLCKINIJHAM. 

C. Howe; and the annually 
increasing patronage of 
the house is the best 
testimony in the 
world to its popular- 
ity. The rooms are 
large, the appoint- 
ments modern, the- 
surrcnnulings pleas- 
ant, the terms mod 
erate. For particu- 
lars address 

GEORGE C. HOWE. 

Proprietor. kkom im roKcn m rm- r.rcKiNr.nAM. 

Circulars at Standard Ciuidc Information Hureau. Uotei Cordova Round Tower. St. -\ugustine. 



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Sy. Aiigtistinc Hotels. 




•^The* Barcelona^ 



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R OF Carrera and Sevilla Streets. 



;T. AUGUSTINE, FL(3RIDA. 



Beautiful for situation. All modern improvements. Sleeping 

rooms newly furnished. Perfect sanitary arrangements. 

Good family table and home comforts. 

-:•! OPEN NOVEMBER TO MAY. !^ 

R. E. HASSELTINE 

Eight Years at Hasseltine Cottage. 

OPPOSITE Magnolia Hotel. Circulars also at the Standard Guide Information P.ureau, St. Augustine. 



67. A ^i^ustiiic. 
When in Florida, register at or write to the office of 



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of Florida Society. 



TRThER 



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THH TATLHR is publislicd every Saturday, at No. 2^ Alcazar, St. Augustine, in the interests of 
l-lurida iicitels and resorts. A record ot' social events, jiuirneyin^'s ot" visitors, items of interest 
about hotel guests, notes of travel. It reaches hundreds of tourists to the State and interested visitors of 
former seasons. 

" We sell more copies of file Taller than of any other weekly in St. Au-ristine." — i'liion Xc-u-s Co. 

Sample Copies free on applica'iion. Subscription Price, $i.co for season. 

Advertising rates $15.00 per inch for season. 

Mrs. ANNA M. MARCOTTE, Editor and Proprietoi . 

Visitors to the Slate are invited to send name and journeyings to Hditor ; all correspondence strictlv 
confidential. Live news anil snci.il matters furnished newspapers. 

HARRY LILLYWHITE & SON, 

Bicycle, 6olf and Sporting 6ood$ 

OUTFITTERS 

Bowling: Alleys: Bishop's Building:, Cathedral St. 
Bicycle Store: 152 St. Geor§:e Street, 

ST. AUGUSTINE. 




ARNOLD KURTH, 



DEALER IN 



Ancient and Modern Curiosities and Jewelry, 

from every quarter of the Globe. 

Qo St. George Street and St. Oeorj^e Street opposite Florida House, 

ST. AUGUSTINE, - FLA. 



S.ARATOGA SPRINCS-from June to September isth. 
Circulars at Standard Guide Information Bureau, Hotel Cordova Round Tower, St. Augustine. 



The Standard Guide. 

THE SPEAR MANSION, 









ST. GEORGE AND CORDOVA STREETS, South of the Plaza, 



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QCCUPIES one of thf most 
pleasant situations in St. Au- 
gustine. It has large rooms^ 
sliady verandas, and spacious 
grounds, beautified witli slirub- 
bery and lawn. It is an inviting 
winter home. 

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Terms, $2 to $3 per day. 

Special rates by the week 



Address A. R. SPENCER, Proprietor. 



STAPLE AND FANCY GROCERIES. 

CHOICE FLORIDA FRUITS, PRESERVES AND JELLIES. 

LUNCHEON BISCUITS. 

Everything of the Best and Purest in Quality. 

FINE TEAS AND COFFEES A SPECIALTY, 

PLAZA GROCERY CO., 

Sanchez Block, 33 King Street, . Phone 48, . St. Augustine, Fla. 
1 ♦ li* D^ KERN AN; ^ Late with J. Milhau's Son New York, 

PRESCRIPTION CHEMIST, 

Cor. St. Georg:e and King Streets, ST. AUGUSTINE, FLA. 

Invites attention to following Specialties: 

Candies, 

Mineral Waters, 

Toilet Articles, 

Prescription Department, in cliarge of a graduate of the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy, is complete in every detail. 
All mail orders will receive prompt attention. Vour patronage respectfully solicited. 




St. Alio list inc and Elsewhere. 



THE PALMS. 

New Hotel, New Furniture, 
Modern Improvements, v** v** 

FRONTING ON BEAUTIFUL 
LAKE WORTH, 

Opposite Hotel Royal Poinciana. 

$2.00 to $3.00 per day. Special rates 
by the week. 



Adihess 



THE PALMS, 
West Palm Beach, Fla. 



Hotel Hernandez, 

Charlotte Street, St. Augustine, Fla. 

This House has been newly Refurnished, 
and is Centrally Located near all Prin- 
cipal Parts of the City. 



Rates: $1.50 to $2.00 per day, $7.00 to $10.00 per 
week. Special rates by the month. 

MRS. J. V. HERNANDEZ, Prop. 



J. R SLATER, 

REAL ESTATE BROKER, 

Has the very best bargains in 
City Property. 

Furnished and unfurnished houses 
for rent. 



ST. AUGUSTINE, FLA. 



THE VERONA INN, 

Clearwater, Florida. 

Benutifully Situated on the (iulf of Mexico, 
ill tile Midst of tile Finest Orange Section 
ill the State. ^ ^ ^ ^ .^ S ^ 

Gas, Electric Bells, Baths, Hot and 

Cold Water, Sanitary Arranjre= 

nients Perfect, Unexcelled 

Bathing and Sailing. 

BEST SHOOTING and FISHING IN FLORIDA. 

Rates, $2.50 per day, 
$11 to $15 per week. 

HENRY HANDY, Proprietor. 

THE OCEAN VIEW HOTEL, 

I'muk Nkw ami I,ii;kkai, M anacikmen t, 

ST. AUGUSTINE, FLORIDA. 

llandsonie and homelike. Located one block 
south of I'laza, within 75 feet of the old sea wall, 
and fronts on the beautiful Matanzas I!ay, with an 
unobstructed view of the Atlantic Ocean, Anasta- 
sia Island and old Spanish fort. 

Rates, $2.00 to $2.50 per day. 
Special rates by the week. 

F. C. HflVDEH, IVIanagep. 
Open all the Year. 



DR. E. M. GOODRICH, 

northern Demist - 

(IF 

^ 25 Vear$' experience. 



Office and Residence: 
NORTH ST. GEORGE STREET, 

Near the City Gates. 



Circulars at Standard r.uido Information lUucaii, Tlotcl (', rdova Round Tower, .^t. AuRustin';. 



JOHN B, STETSON UNIVERSITY 

DE LAND, FLORIDA. 




CHAUDOIN HALL— WOMKN S uOKMITORY. 

For main building see another page. 

Send for illustrated hundred-page catalogue. 



COLLEGE, highest standards, many electives. 
ACADEMY prepares for best colleges. 
NORMAL SCHOOL, theoretical and practical. 
BUSINESS COLLEGE, actual business practice. 
MUSIC SCHOOL, voice, piano, pipe organ, violin. 
ART SCHOOL, thorough academic metliods. 

FACULTY of over twenty experts. 
LIBRARY, recently selected, 7,000 volumes. 
LABORATORIES, chemical, physical, biological. 
MUSEUM, comprehensive, well arranged. 
GYMNASIUM with abundant apparatus. 
SUI^ERB BUILDINGS, costing $200,000. Steam 

heat, electric light, artesian water. 
NEW AUDITORIUM. Capacity one thousand. 

Great pipe organ. 
SEPARATE DORMITORIES for young men and 

young women. Baths on each flour. 
MILITARY DRILL for young men. Systematic 

physical training for young women. 
CLIMATE UNSURPASSEI)"in all Florida. High 

ground. No malaria. 

JOHN F. FORBES, President. 



HOTEL COLLEGE ARMS, -j^ De Land, Fla, 




Modern and first-class in all esiKomcnts. Electric light, artesian water, perfect s.Tnitation; cuisine of high 
standard. The cheerful rooms look out over the charming town. There are walks, drives and water excursions. 
De Land is famed for its healthfulness and attractiveness Terms, $3.00 per day and upward Special to families. 
For further information apply to C. W. RIPLEY, Manager, De Land, Fla. (Prop. The Sippican, Marion, Mass.) 

Information of the Stetson University and College Arms Hotel at the Standard Guide Information Bureau, St. Augustine, 



J'lorida Hotels. 




HOTEL COQUINA, 

ORiWOND-BY-THE-SEA, - - FLORIDA. 

Attractiuns are C)i"an,L;e ("■ roves, (".ardens, Walks, l)rivcs, llicyclini^, IJoatinti: 'ind 
Fishing, (lolf Links. Surf liathin^- all the year. Rate, $,Voo to $3.50. 

SEISER & VININQ, Managers. 

THE PUTNAM, 

DE LAND, FLA. 




T' 



il'. I'lrXA.M is De Land's 
larm'sL liotrl. Situated in the 



forlabte and home-like. Rates 

moderate. .Vccominodations for one 
hundi'ed. 

M. E. GOULD & CO. 



WINTER PARK, FLORIDA. 

THE ROGERS. 

Beautifully situated, ovcrluokinn lakes, orange groves 
iiul town. Light, airy, well tiirnished rooms. Luxuri- 
ous beds. Table supplied with the best. Pure soft 
w ater on each lloor. 

Rates, $2.00 to $2.50 per day. $io.oo to $i6.uo per week. 

A. E. & A. R. ROGERS. 

Circulars also at the Standard Guide Inforiitation Bureau, St. Augustine. 




Rocklcdgc. 

NEW ROCKLEDGE HOTEL and COTTAGES. 




On Indian River, Rockledge, Fla. 

A FIRST-CLASS FAINHLV HOTF.L having large, sunny ro'>ms, en suite, with private baths. Excellent hunting and 
fishing. Shell roads for driving and bicycles. Naphtha launches, boats and livery. Northern service. Capacity, 150 

guests. Rates: $2.50 to $3.00 per day. Special rates by the week and to parties. Illustrated circulars sent 
on application. |-| p SHARES, Ptop. ALLEN T. TREADWAY, flanager. 

Information of the Rockledge also at the Standard C.uide Inforni.itinn I'.ureau, St. Augustine. 



HOTEL INDIAN RIVER, Rockledge, Fla. 




Capacity 500. Electric lights, slcam heat, tlcvaiur, orchestra, concerts, tiaiuiny, u-imi-., bowling 
bicycling, steam launches, sail boats, fishing, duck shooting. Pure drinking water. Sanitary plumbing 

Rates, $2.50 and upward. 



The Standard tiiiide. 



Indian River and Bay Biscayne Inland Navigation Company. 

OPERATING A LINE OF PASSENGER STEAMERS ON THE 
INDIAN RIVER AND LAKE WORTH. 




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From Titiisville and Rockledsfe to Palm Beach, stopping: at intermediate Landings. 

TOURISTS will t"ind this a charming trip, affording an opportunity of seeing tlie far famed 
scenic beauties of the Indian Ri\er and Lake Worth country. Tlie steamboats are proxided 
with good staterooms, and tiie table is excellent. 

Connections at Titiisville with the Jacksonville, Tampa and Key West Railway. 



ZbC IRibtjeWOOb, E)atona, jfla. 



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X attractive house in the prettiest vilhiiro in Florida. There ;ui' 1-: ..iJ pia., .,.;.■-. i.:^. .,...;.'. .-^^.^pirifr rooms, 
and a roof g-arden where one may view the broad Atlantic, ."-anitary cuiidiiions perteet. Cuisine and 
service of the best. Rates, $^ per daV. .Special by the week. 

R05E & LANQWORTHY, Troprietors; also of the Revere House Narraganset* Pie- 



Hotels. 



MIAMI, FLORIDA, HOTEL MIAML 



The most comfortable and home- 
like hotel on the Florida East Coast. 
Accommodates 250 guests. 

Rates, $2.50 to $3.00 per day. 
Special rates by week or month. 
S. GRAHAM, Proprietor. 








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HOTEL IIIAIII. 



REAL ESTATE, 

A. E. KINGSLEY, Gen. Agt. 

MRS. JULIA D. TUTTLE. 

OFFICE, HOTHL MIAMI. 



FORT DALLAS, HOME OF MRS. JULIA D. TUTTLE. 








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Hotel Conolly, 

MIAMI, FLORIDA. 

■pERFECri.V iiL-w hotel, with all niudern 
improvements. Located on park, one 
block from Hotel Koyal I'alm, commandin-j 
splendid view of Fiiscayne \\:\\ . Rates, $2.00 
per da_\- antl upward. Special rates l)y week 
or month. 



DELLMORE COTTAGE, 

PALM BEACH, FLORIDA. 

,^^ijoills the Hotel Royal Poinciaiia grounds ; h;:s broad verandas on all sides of the 
bouse ; fronts beautifully on the lake ; splendid elevation. 



MRS. R. B. MOORE, Proprietor. 



Rates, $2.00 to $2.50 per day. ^ 

Special rates for the season. 

Circulars of the Lake Worth, Seminole and Dellmorc at the StanJaru Guide Information llureau. 



(fSSd/f. 



THE ROYAL VICTORIA HOTEL, 

^ NASSAU, BAHAMAS. 

Mn^niricciitly situated ; admirably 
kept ; exLcileiit tuisiiic. Well 
known as the cleanest and best 
hotel in the West Indies. Terms 
.It the hotel, §4 per day, U. S. cur- 
rency ; special rates to permanent 
guests. Visitors will find letters of 
credit, certificates of deposit, U. S. 
uold notes or coin the more con- 
venient form of funds. Letters of 
credit or tlrafts on Nassau can be 
procured of the agents of the steam- 
ship line. Nassau has cable com- 
munication with the United States. 
■^ There is sea bathing every day in 
the year on a beach that cannot be 
surpassed. The sailing is perfect; 
•- -^ ' the roads are unequaled for cvclmg. 

From November till May a moie delightlul climate cannot be found for invalid, tourist, sportsman or 
pleasure seeker — the mercury ranging o=, to 75 , and rarely varying ^ in twenty-four hours. 

S. S. MORTON, Proprietor. 





■^1 III N.Ji n s Mti'i'T*"'?/ 'I <l i - 




4mS>f^ 'N*'^ 



..^^.^ THE TROPICS: 

Nassau, Cuba, Mexico. 

The Most Famous Health and Pleasure Resorts 
in the West Indies and Gulf of Mexico, v** -J* ^ 

The .steamers of the New York and 
Cuba Mail Steamship Company (\\'ar(l 
Line) leave New York for Nassau, San- 
tiago and Cienfuegos every other Thurs- 
day; for Havana and ^Ie.\i(■an ports, 
every \\'ednesday and Saturday. 
Nassau is reached in seventy hours. 
It is the sanitarium of the \\'estern Hemisphere, with an equable winter climate of 
70^ to 78°, and a variation of not over s'' in twenty-four hours. Malaria, rheuma- 
tism, kidney and lung troubles speedily benefited and often cured. Havana is the 
Paris of the Tropics. The Cuban winter is genial and the nights cool. Me.vico offers 
with the least discomfort a variety of climate that should please tourist or invalid. 

Tlu' steamers are new, full-powered steel ships that offer all the luxury and safety 
of modern seagoing travel. For full information, beautifully illustrated ]xunphlets, 
maps, climatic tables, etc. (all sent free on appli(-ation), apjilv to 

.•* J* J* .* JAMES E. WARD & CO., US Wall Street, New York. 




Tourist Resorts. 



FORT PIERCE HOTEL. 



Hunting and Fishing. At Fort Pierce, on Indian River, are combined more facilities 
for recreation, sport and comfort than anywhere else in Florida. The hunting and fishing 
(including tarpon), are unexcelled. Guides are furnished, and boats and horses are free to 
guests. This is the heart of the pineapple belt. The Foi't Pierce Hotel is new and 
furnished with every modern convenience. 

FRANK M. TYLER, Proprietor. 




GROVE HALL 

in an orange grove, in beautiful Crescent City, on 
the bank of Lake Crescent, is a delightful tourists' 
home in the midst of the orange grove section. The 
site is famed for its pure and dry atmosphere, cura- 
tive of asthma or lung troubles. Good shooting and 
fishing. Rail or boat from Jacksonville. 

Address, WM. C NORTON, Proprietor. 



See the St. John's by Daylight. 

Tourists should not fail to enjoy the attractions of a daylight trip up the picturesque 
St. John's, on the Beach & Miller Line Steamboat Crescent, which leaves Jacksonville 
at 8.30 Sundays, Tuesdays and Fridays, for Green Cove Springs, Palatka and Crescent 
City, returning Mondays, Wednesdays and Saturdays. Connects at Palatka for St. Au- 
gustine and South Florida by rail. A delightful trip. 

BEACH & niLLER, Crescent City. 

J. F. RHOADS, Jacksonville. 



THE HOLLY INN, 



Daytona, Fla. 




O, HOWES, Proprietor. Rates, $2.50 and up. Special by the week. 

Information of .ill the above at the Standard Guide Information Bureau, St. Augustine 



The Standard Gitid.e. 



THE SAN JUAN, ^ ORLANDO, FLA. 





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The only first-class brick hotel iii the citv. No malaria. Fine drives, bicNxlin-, hard cla\ reads. Pure spriii- water. 

For rates, etc , write to HARRY L. BEEMAN, Proprietor. 

Polo, golf, lawn tennis. Electric bells, gas, perfect sanitary arrangements. 

INDEPENDENT LINE OF STEAMERS 

OPERATE A 

ST. JOHN'S RIVER SERVICE, 

Covering the mo.st interesting' portion of tlie St. John's River, and a 

TAMPA BAY AND HANATEE RIVER SERVICE, 

leaving' Tampa in the morning and retnrning in time for snpper, passing up 
the beautiful Manatee River, with its pnjsperous towns and beautiful groves. 

For sehedules address, C. E. GARNER, Pres., Jacksonville. 

JN THE FAR SOUTH! 

THE FLORIDA TIMES-UNION AND CITIZEN. 

Morning. >iinday, Semi. Weekly. These three up=to-dafe Newspapers cover Florida most thoroughly. 

Circulation (iiiaraiile d 

The Florida Times-Union (j2d year) and The Florida Citizen (4th year* were consolidated September o. 1897. This 
consolidated paper is read from November to June by people from more .States than any other paper in the United States 
on the day of publication, thereby being uneqiialed as an advertising medium in the South, besides circulating in every 
nook and corner of Florida. 

Size : 8 to 10 pages daily ; 12, 16 and 24 pages Sunday. 

THE SEMI-WEEKLY TIMES-UNION AND QTIZEN. 

This paper contains State and goner.il no«s, and .i great \ ari<jt\ c t" intercstini; rcidiiig. inchiuing farm and household 
matters. With the growing interest in Florida everywhere, the Semi-Weekly is rapidly attaining a universal circulation. 
Speciiueii cupicei I'rre to Hiiv adtlr^-ss. .Address 

THE FLORIDA TIMES=UNION AND CITIZEN, Jacksonville, Fla. 

tirculars at Standard Ciuide Information nureau. Hotel Cordova Round Tower, St. AuRUstinc. 



Tlie Standard Guide. 



THE MYLES STANDISH HOTEL 

In Connection with the Celebrated Myles Standish Spring, 
SOUTH DUXBURY, MASS. 

Stands upon a bluff of the 
old Myles Standish Farm, about 
three hundred feet from the 
shore of Plymouth Bay. It is 
pre-eminently a place for pleas- 
ure seekers, and yet is equally 
attractive and desirable for 
those seeking quiet and rest. 
The absence of an undertow 
makes particularly safe its half 
mile of bathing beach. 

Golf, boating and other 
amusements. Many miles of 
wooded drives. 

Season 1898 opens June 25. 
Rates, $3.00 per day. Special arrangements by the week. 
L. BOYER'S SONS, Proprietors, = = qo Wall Street, New York. 




READERS AND CONTRIBUTORS. 



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and 5,000 sportsmen write for it? Take the great West, for instance. West= 
ern sportsmen send it stories of their adventures with grizzlies and mountain 

lions; of hunting the deer, the elk, the 
mountain sheep ; of shooting prairie 
chickens, grouse, quail and ducks; of 
fishing for trout, bass, pike, pickerel 
and muscalonge; of wolf and jack rab= 
bit coursing; with talk of gun, dog and 
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of a Western sportsman's life. And as 
in the West, so in the East, the South, 
the North, flexico, Canada — every= 
where. This is why FOREST AND STREAM has come to be in every section 
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A WhhKLY Journal oh thl Rod and Gun. 

KSTAKMSHrn TWENTY YEARS • ILLUSTRATED. 



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Tourist Resorts. 



HOTEL CHAMBERLIN, 



Old Point Comfort^ Va. 




The Hotel Chaniberliii 
is the most complete aiul 
nuignificent hotel on the 
Atlantic coast. It is situ- 
ated upon the (iovernment 
Reservation, almost under 
the frowning battlements 
of historic old Fort Mon- 
roe, and overlooks the 
Hampton Roads, a broad 
and beautiful expanse of 
sea formed by the conflu- 
ence of the Chesapeake 

Day, the James River and the Atlantic. Its frontage of 754 feet is greater than 
that of the National Capitol building at Washington. It has 554 rooms, of which 
470 are guest chambers; and oi these 200 have private baths attached, each with hot 

and cold, fresh and 
salt water faucets. 
The climate of Fort 
Monroe is a happv 
medium between the 
extremes of north 
and south, cooled in 
summer by delicious 
breezes direct from 
old ocean, and tem- 
pered in winter by 
the nearness of the 
(lulf Stream, so that 
out-of-doors exist- 
ence is a pleasure. 

* # *» 

For reservations 
and terms address 

rilE GK.Wl) UALl. KOO.M. 

ALAN F. CAMPBELL, Asst. Manager Hotel Chamberlin, Fort Monroe, Va. 

Circulars at Standard Guide Information Bureau, Hotel Cordova Round Tower. St. .\ugustine. 




Sa/i//ar///;;/s. 



The 5outh's Famous Health Resort. 



Way down on de Suwanee Ribber." 



SUWANEE 5PRINQ5, 



Suwanee, Florida. 






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Situated on the Hain Line of the Savannah, Florida & Western Railway. 174 fliles 
from Savannah, da. 90 Miles from Jacksonville, Fla. 



Assured Cure for Kidney Troubles. 

DAILY DEMONSTRATED TO HE 

^;/ Infallible Mineral IVater 

IN THE CURE OF 

Rlieuniatism, Gout, Malaria, Indigestion, Nervous Dyspepsia, Constipa- 
tion, Loss ot' Appjtite, Neivous Prostration, Skin Diseases, Liver Dis- 
eases, Jauui-iiLe, Female Troubles, Eczema ami all Blood Aftections. 



Hotel Accommodations Unsurpassed. 

Circulars also at the Stamlard C.uiLle Information Bureau in the Round 'lower of Hotel t:ordova. Si Augustine. 



1 he Standard Guide, 




A. T. Still, President. 



C. E. Still. / 
H. M. Still, )' 



- Vice-Fresidents. 



H. E. Patiekson, Secretary. 



THE 



American School of Osteopathy, 



KIRK5VILLE, MISSOURI. 



The course of stucl\- in Tlie Amei icaii School <jf (Jsteopath\- is a carefullv graded one, ;inil 
is divided into four terms, of live months each. 'l"he terms bejjin in Septemlier and l-'ebru:iry 
of each year. The course thus recjuires tw^o years for completion. ^^ 

Tin-: STUDIKS ARE AS FOI.IOWS: 

FIRST TERM. 

("leneral Descriptive Anatomy, including Osteology, Syndesmology, Mvology, Angiologv 
anil Neurology ; Histology, including the description and recognition of the normal tissues of 
the body ; the Principles of Chemistry and Physiological Plnsics. 

SECOND TERM. 

(leneral Descriptive Anatomy of the Viscera ami organs of special sense ; Practical An- 
atomy, with demonstrations on the cadaver ; Analytical and Physiological Chemistry ; Physi- 
ology ; Symptomatology ami Physical Diagnosis; Hygiene and Dietetics; Principles of 
Osteopathy. 

THIRD TERM. 

Practical and Regional Anatiim\-, with dcnionstralions on the cadaver ; Ph\'sioloL;v : 
Pathology and Pathological Anatomy; I 'rinal\ sis ami Toxicology; Clinical Demonstr.itions 
in Osteopathy. 

FOURTH TERM. 

Topographical Analomv ; Minor Surgery, Ciynecolog\' 
])rudcnce ; (■linical Practice in Osteopathy. 



Obstetrics; Medical 



The school is open to students of both sexes without distinction, and ail have equal opportunities and privi- 
leges, and are held to the same requirements. 

The methods of instruction are such as obtain in the best academic and collegiite institutions, and include 
recitations from standard text-books, lectures, quizzes, practical laboratory work, and practical clinic work. 

The equipment of the school is complete in every respect. The recitation and lecture rooms are amply 
provided with all necessary means of illustration, such as specimens, fresh and preserved, skeletons, models, 
charts, manikins and diagrams. 

The respective laboratories are fitted up with all the necessary apparatus for practical work in the Ana- 
tomical, Hi-itological, Microscopical, Chemical and Physiological departments. 

The clinical facilities an i opportunities enjoyed by students in this school are e.xceptional. An abundance 
of material is always available for clinic demonstrations, which are continued daily throueh two terms, with 
practical work in the clinic operating rooms by each student, under the direction of the regular operators,' daily 
during the whole of the last term. 

In addition to the regular clinical department, the A. T. Still Infirmary has constantly under treatment 
from three hundred to five hundred patients, and although the students do not see these patients, the many 
cases of diseases of all kinds under the care of the regular operators in the Infirniary gives them constantly 
fresh and varied illustrations for use in their lectures. Sometimes, too, patients whose cases may be of special 
interest offer the use of their ca.scs for the purpose of demonstration before the students 

Opportunities are thus furni-^hed to students for such practice and drill in the actual work of treating dis- 
eases as we believe is not equaled by any similar institution anywhere. The course of study is progre-sivelv 
graded with a view to giving students a thorough and comprehensive knowledge of the facts and principle's 
upon which their future work is to be based. The;>e clinic exercises in connection and immediately following 
give them facility and readiness in the art of applying the facts and principles which they have acquired in 
recognizing and treating diseased conditions. 

Catalogue m.iiled upon application. For information as to terms, etc., apply to 

C. M. T. HULETT, Dean. 




I'uwer, St. Au^u>tiiie. 



SARATOGA SPRINGS 

QUEEN OF AMERICAN SUMMER RESORTS. 

Saratoga Springs maintains to-day the unique 
position it has held so long as the leading health 
and pleasure resort of the American summer. 
It possesses the unequaled natural advantages 
of lovely situation, exhilarating climate, and 
such a collection of marvelous medicinal springs 
as may be found nowhere else in the world. 
The gifts of nature have been supplemented and 
complemented by the intelligence and art of 
man, by which every provision has been matle 
for the convenience, comfort and lu.xury of 
those who come here for pleasure or for health. 
In all that makes up a summer resort Saratoga 
Springs is unrivaled. It is unsurpassed and 
unsurpassable. 

The village is situated in the eastern part of 
New York, upon the last spur of the Adirondack 
Mountains, and fairly within their influence. 
The site is a sandy plateau, which has been well 
characterized as a spot of nature's own making 
for people who need pure air, natural drainage, 
sunshine, and freedom from malaria. 
The surrounding country is densely wooded and sparsely settled, and the prevail- 
ing winds coming across the vast expanse of forests breathe upon the village a con- 
stant supply of pure, dry and bracing air, rich in ozone, and bearing the fragrance of 
balsam and hemlock, and fir and pine. 

The village is charmingly beautiful, with shaded streets bordered by verdant lawns, 
hedges and flower gardens. It is in eft'ect a park in itself, through which we may 
ramble beneath arching elms, to discover at every turn some new vista to delight the eye. 
There is an abundant supply of pure water, a perfect sewer system, and throughout 
a carefully planned, scientiflcally constructed and thoroughly maintained sanitary 
system. 

The Saratoga season draws together the most brilliant gathering of fashion on the 
(•ontinent. The daily procession of equipages on Broadway is a spectacle long to be 
remembered. Excellent bands give daily concerts in the Congress Park, on the hotel 
l)iazzas, antl in the illuminated hotel courts at night. There are hops, balls, fetes and 
entertainments in unceasing round and endless variety. 

Riding, driving and wheeling are amply provided for in well-kept village streets, 

Circulars at Standard Guide Infurmation Bureau, Hotel Cordova Round Tower. -St. .\ugustine. 




The Standard Criiidc. 

and civenues aiul boulev;irils k-adinir out through the residence sections, whence 
country roads stretch away amid picturesque scenery. Miles upon miles of bicycle 
paths have been laid out. The races of the Saratoga Racing As.-ociation come in 
[uly and .\ugust, and are important events in the turf world. There are tennis 
courts and golf links. The Saratoga Golf Links rank among the finest in the country. 

The culmination of the Saratoga season finds expression in the Floral Fete, which 
comes usually in September. It is given under the auspices of the Saratoga I'doral 
Festival Association, composed of leading citizens and summer residents; and the 
entu'e village contributes to its success. On this day Saratoga decks herself out most 
gorgeouslv with flowers and ribbons and bunting. Everywhere color greets the eye ; 
all is brilliant, beautiful, many-hued. 

The mineral springs which have given Saratoga its fame are some thirty in number, 
and new ones are discovered from time to time bv sinking wells through earth and 
rock to a depth of hundreds of feet. Among the best known and most valuable 
springs are the Congress, Lincoln, Saratoga Vichy, Red and Eureka White Sulphur. 

The hotels of Saratoga Sjirings are the largest and most substantial sunnner hotels 
in the world. \\\ appointment and management they represent the perfected art t)f 
hotel keeping. They afford accommodations for 25,000 guests, and range in prices 
so widely as to meet the fancy of the lavish and the free, and none the less to suit the 
requirements of those of moderate means or economical bent. 

The Grand Union and the United States are the largest and best known of Saratoga 
hotels. Others are the American-Adelphi, Commercial, Kensington, Heustis, Ken- 
more, Elmwood Hall, Levengston and Western. 

A handsomely illustrated folder entitled ''Saratoga Springs," giving detailed infor- 
mation about Saratoga, will be found in the folder racks of all hotels and railway 
offices through the South. 




The Saratoga Golf Links. 



Bicycles. 




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£laim$ to be 

the be$t 
$50.09 Bicycle 
of the Season. 



It is handsome^ durable, needs no 
repairs, runs easily, gives satisfaction 
to all 



As a ROAD WHEEL it is unsurpassed. 



The '^PEERLESS SPECIAL/' at $75.00, is a gem of the 

first water. 

The ^^ PEERLESS BLUEBIRD RACERS' is a winner; 
light and fast, with a splendid record. 

The ^^ PEERLESS TANDEMS'' are very stylish, grace- 
ful, strong and easy running. The rider and his tan- 
dem mate are always happy on their ^^ Peerless." 

THE ENTIRE PEERLESS LINE 

is built of fine iTiiiterial; the workmanship is the best procurable; 
every part is rigidly inspected; the finish is beautiful, the artistic 
handwork adding elegance to the fine luster of good enameling, 
and the equipment suits the most fastidious. 




CLEVELAND, OHIO. 



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Circulars at Standard < Juide Information Bureau, Hotel Cordova Round Tower, .St. Augustine. 



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A NATIONAL RIDER 

NEVER CHANGES HIS MOUNT. 



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The Finest Bicycles Ever Made^ equipped to suit the most tastidious. fitj 
EASY RUNNING, DURABLE AND HANDSOME. V^ 

Complete cataldgue allows nine di^tinLt imnlels al prii.i.N t,i suit xoiir pin kitbook. liet it. Vj^l 

EVERY ONE OF THEM CARRIES OUR TRADE MARK, V^^ 

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Bay City, Mich, 



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g NATIONAL CYCLE MFG. CO., - ^^y v.xty, .v.ic.i> ^ 
f> ^ ^ >- >- ^ ^ ^ ^ i^ ^ i*' > ^ i#-^ ^ ^ ^ ^ -C -C -C -^S. -«t ^ ■*^ -e <. ^ 

Circulars at Standard ("luidc Information lUircaii. Hotel Cordova Round Tower. St. Augustine. 



GOOD FURNITURE 



Direct from the 
Factory at 



FACTORY PRICES 






PATENT APPLIED FOR. 



Easy Chairs $26.50 buys this luxurious easy chair, No. 658, direct from the factory, fniglit prepaid, sent " On Ap- 
and Couches, proval," to be returned al our expense if not positively the best chair ever sold at so low a price. Makes 
a handsome piece of furniture. 

Covered with best quality machine buffed genuine leather (no imitation^. Has genuine hair cushions, spring rockers and ball-bearing casters. 
Choice of maroon, olive-green, or russet color leather. At retail, a similar chair costs $40 to $50. Ask for complete catalogue No. 3. 
Mahogany $9.75 buys this dainty desk direct from the factory, freight prepaid, sent "On Approval," to be returned 

Ladies' Desl<. at our expense if not positively the best ladies' desk ever sold at so low a price. A dainty birthday or wed- 
ding gift for a lady 

Front is figured mahogany, tastily inlaid with pearl and white holly. H.-^s French legs both back and front, two locks. Small drawer inside, 
places for paper, pen, ink, etc. Bottom of large drawer is of pretty bird's-eye maple. Trimmings are all solid brass (not washed), including the 
crest. This desk is polished like a piano, and from a dealer will cost $15.00 to $20.00. Ask for catalogue No. 3, 

Figured Oak or $32.50 buys this excellent " Macey" desk, No. 241-A. direct from the factory, freight prepaid, sent 
Cherry Desk. " On Approval," to be returned at our expense if not positively the best roll-top desk ever sold at the price. 

Made of the best quarter-sawed oak or cherry, finely figured and richly polished. Our latest design. Notice the fine panel work on the ends. 
Has twelve o.ik-front pigeonhole boxes, Yale locks, ball-bearing casters, and FIVE COMPLETE LETTER FILES. Every desk user must have 
SOME PLACE for letters, receipts, etc. — this desk has it dust-proof and under lock and key. A dealer will ask $55.00 to $65.00 lor a similar desk. Ask 
for catalogue No. 2. 

We Prepay Freight to all points east of the Mississippi and north of South Carolina (Points beyond upon equal basis.) 

The FRED MACEY CO., - Makers of Office and Library Furniture, - Grand Rapids, Mich. 
LETTER FILES: Complete line; refine(i designs. Cauiogue DIRECT FROM THE FACTORY. 

STEINWAY 



Grand 
Pianos 




Upright 
Pianos 



The Recognized Standard Pianos of the World. 

Pre-eminently the best instruments .nt present made, c.xporte:! to and sold in all art centers of the globe; 
endorsed and preferred f.ir public and private use by the grea'est living artists. 

Illustrated Catalogues Mailed Free on Application. 

STEINWAY & SONS, 
Warerooms: Steinway Hall, = 107=111 Ea^t 14th Street, New Y>rk. 



J)/cvc'/cs. 



"" A NATIONAL RIDER 



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NEVER CHANGES HIS MOUNT. 




The Finest Bicycles Ever Made, equipped to suit the most fastidious. 
EASY RUNNING, DURABLE AND HANDSOME. 

(^oiiipk-ti.- calaKimtc sli(i\s> nine diMiiul ihcilIcIs :il pri^i^ to suit _\iiui- pnd-clbocik. (jcl it. 

EVERY ONE OF THEM CARRIES OUR TRADE MARK, 




Bay City, Mich, 



^^ NATIONAL CYCLE MFG. CO., - 

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Circulars at Standard Ciuidc Tnforniatioii lUircau, Hotel Cordova Round Tower, St. Augustine. 



GOOD FURNITURE 



Direct from the 
Factory at 



FACTORY PRICES 









PATFNT APPLIED FOR. 

Easy Chairs $26.50 buys this luxurious easy chair. No. 658, direct from the incxory, /niglit /•npai,/, sent "On Ap- 
and Couches, proval," to be returned al our I'.x-ftense if not positively the best chair ever sold at so low a price. Makes 
a handsome piece of furniture. 

Covered with best quality machine-buffed genuine leather (no imitation). Has genuine hair cushions, spring rockers and ball-bearing casters. 
Choice of maroon, olive-green, or russet color leather. At retail, a similar chair costs $40 to $50. Ask for complete catalogue No. 3. 

Mahogany $9-75 buys this dainty desk direct from the factory, freight prepaid, sent " On Approval." to be returned 

Ladies' Desk, al our expense if not positively the best ladies' desk ever sold at so low a price. A dainty birthday or wed- 
ding gift for a lady 

Front is figured mahogany, tastily inlaid with pearl and white holl)^. Has French legs both hack and frorit, two locks. Small drawer inside, 
places for paper, pen, ink, etc. Bottom of large drawer is of pretty bird's-eye maple. Trimmings are all solid brass (not washed), including the 
crest. This desk is polished like a piano, and from a dealer will cost $15.00 to $2000. Ask for catalogue No. 3. 

Figured Oak or $32.50 buys this excellent " Macey" desk, No. 241-A, direct from the factory, freight prepaid, sent 
Cherry Desk. " On .Approval," to be returned at our expense if not positively the best roll-top desk ever sold at the price. 

Made of the best quarter-saweti oak or cherry, finely figured and richly polished. Our latest design. Notice the fine panel work on the ends. 
Has twelve oak-front pigeonhole boxes, Yale locks, ball-bearing casters, and FIVE COMPLETE LETTER FILES. Every desk user must have 
SOME PLACE for letters, receipts, etc. — this desk has it dust-proof and under lock and key. A dealer will ask $55,00 to $65.00 tor a similar desk. Ask 
for catalogue No, 3. 

We Prepay Freight to all points east of the Mississippi and north of South Carolina (Points beyond upon equal basis.) 

The FRED MACEY CO., - Makers of Office and Library Furniture, - Grand Rapids, Mich. 
LETTER FILES: Complete line; refined designs. Catalogue DIRECT FROM THE FACTORY, 

STEINWAY 



Grand 
Pianos 




^'M 



Upright 
Pianos 



^"i.C*^ 



The Recognized Standard Pianos of the World. 

Pre-eminently the best instruments at present made, exported to and sold in all art centers of the globe; 
endorsed and preferred for pLiblic and private use by the grea'est living artists. 

Illustrated Catalogues Mailed Free on Application. 

STEINWAY «S; SONS, 
Warerooms: Steinway Hall, = 107 = 111 Bast 14th Street, New YDrk. 



The Standard Ciiiidt\ 



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1 If You are Looking Around for a | 

;^ Winter home. ;in all-tlu'-ve;ir-;ii()L!iid home, or ;i phice to engage in ;^ 

7^ business, go down and take a look at MfAMI. the "Magic City of 7^ 

'^ South Florida." All its beauties and ad\antages eaiinot be described ^^ 

v^ in this short space. It has all the conveniences of a modein citv, the 'rP 

^ ■ ■ ' ^ 

^ terminus ot railway and steamship lines. We have choice lots tor ^ 

~v sale to suit the pockets of all classes. Prices from S=.o to Si. 000 per ^ 

;^ K)t. Easy terms. Title perfect. s»^ 

:^ ■ Call on or address ^ 

^ JOHN B. REILLY, Agent, ^ 

^ Or Miami, Fla. 7^ 

* J. E. INGRAHAM, * 

^ Vice-Pres. and Treas. Ft. Dallas Land Company, ^ 

^ St. Augustine, Fla, W 

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^UHLIGHJ A collcclKin iil'lhiily-niiK' lai>;c liall'-ldiic plates, specially engraved from aUHLiCHli 

,p|Q%:y,j3e^ n carefully selected series of iijiotograplis. The subjects comprise St. RGXjjR^S 

>>//mt^ Augustine, Ormond, Rockledge. I'alni Beach. Tampa, the St. John's '^•^^•'nSX^ 

\\\W\\rVn^ and Ocklawaha Rivers, and Florida as seen by tourist eyes. In size and '\\\H\\CU^ 

^i/-^jiA*e?^ scope, binding, qualitv of illustrations and all that makes a Iteautilul art ^.-^^..^ir 

x>7/|\\\t^ book, this volume ot " Sunlisjht Pictures" is distinguished i'v.ni ^'///'tVVCs^ 

^^^)}'.ii/X- 'ill otiier works relating to Florida. . _ . . s-^^., ^/-^ 

— -,^1^ «e«^ SunUght Pictures is sold by .'11 .irt -^ : ; '^ '-^ 

WCIMKES dealers and book stores in Florida. PICTL/RElr 

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EAST COAST CASINOS 

In Connection with tlie Florida East Coast Hotels. 

C. B. KNOTT, General Superintendent. 

ST. AUGUSTINE. 

THE FAHOLIS CASINO 
BATHS, for Men and Women. 
Turkish and Russian Baths. — 

The onlv Turkish and Kussian liaths 
in the State, and the linest in the 
South. Dailv capacit}', 200. Where 
the tired and dusty traveler can 
cnjov the luxury of a bath before 
retiring. 

ALCAZAR (Hotel Attached). 
— Casino Features this Season : 

Theater (special attractions). Music, 
Kestauiant, Shuffle Ik'ards, Danciny, 
Croquet, Ijowlinj^, Pool, Tennis, Bil- 
liards. Swimming INiol 150 feet 
long, 70 feet wide; Plunge Paths, Hot and Cold Tub Paths, Shower Paths, Electric Paths, Sulphur 
Baths; Gvmnasium ; Special Massage Treatment ; Alcohol, Cologne and Salt " Rubs"; Pedicure and 
Manicure Attendants. 

NOTE. — The Aitesian Water used in these baths is from a special well 1,400 feet deep, flowing lo.coo.ooo gallons daily, 
bored for the Casino, and is strong in salt, lime, magnesia, sulphur, iron, and such medicinal qualities highly recom- 
me.ided for their remedial virtues. .\. M. TAVPOK, Si PERINTENDENT. 













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SWIMMING POOL— MIAMI CASINO. 



CHUTE — .\U.\MI CASINO. 



PALM BEACH. 

CASINO— With its Dance and Kntertainment Halls. 

PAVILION.— Salt and Fresh Water Baths; Salt Water Swimming Pool, 200 feet by 70 feet. Sea 
Bathing during the Entire Winter. Bicycles; Cun Club; Fishing. 

KRXEST ALLEN, Siterintk.ndk.ni'. 



MIAMI. 



CASINO. — Hot anil Cold Salt Water Baths, Swimming Pool; Picycle Riding .\cademy; (iun Club: 
I'i>,hincr. E. A WATSON, Sipi-.rintkndknt. 



The Standard Guide, 



I If You are Looking Around for a | 

* * 

;^ Winter honit-. ;in all-the-year-around home, or a [Mace to en.y^aii^e in ;:^ 

7^ business, ^o down and take a look at MFAMl. the •' Mai^ic City of 7^ 

"^ck- South Florida." All its beauties and adxantayes cannot be described '^ 

v^ in this short space. It has all the conveniences of a. modern citv. the r^- 

^ terminus ot railway and steamship lines. We have choice lots lor ^ 

-v, sale to suit the pockets of all classes. Prices from 8=.o to Si.cxx) per -^^ 

';^ lot. Easy terms. Title perfect. ;xi^ 

■% Call on or address 1^ 

* JOHN B. REILLY, Agent, * 

% Or Miami, Fla. ^ 

^ J. E. INGRAHAM, * 

^ Vice-Pres. and Treas. Ft. Dallas Land Company, ^ 

^ St. Augustine, Fla. ^ 



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•PlCT^y'RfeS ^ carefully selected series of photographs. The subjects comprise St. PJCTLiRES 
/>/7m'^ Augustine, Orniond, Rockledge. Palm Beach, Tampa, the St. John's ''^'-'^^'^^ 



'ti' /^ 



^UNlIGH't' '^"""^ Ocklawaha Rivers, and Florida as seen by tourist eyes. In size and ^siiwf lA'ij'-p 

PlCTlt^F^ scope, binding. i.|uality of illustrations and all that makes a beautiful art pipT-i ji4fs,J 

''''-',>. AS v-^ book, this \()lume of " Sunlight Pictures " is distinguished ">jin ^-/,.,\xsv~ 

i'.^^A'.'A'ifT •'" "t'l"-'!' \\orks relating to Florida. . . _ „ -^^^^ -V/.o 

^UHLr^J: = ^UHLlOHt 

[^ '_;1., j^^X SitnUght Pictures is >old by .ill .irt -~ ; '!_, .- 

+*ICWK^ de;ilers and book stores in Florida. T^ICTURE^ 

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EAST COAST CASINOS 

In Connection with the Florida East Coast Hotels. 

C. B. KNOTT, General Superintendent. 

t^* *r^ SiT*' 

ST. AUGUSTINE. 

THE FAHOUS CASINO 
BATHS, for Men and Women. 
Turkish and Russian Baths. — 

'I'lic onlv Tuikisli and Russian liaths 
in the State, and the linest in the 
South. Daily capacit}', 20(j. Where 
the tired and thisty traveler can 
enjov the luxury of a bath before 
retiring. 

ALCAZAR (Hotel Attached). 
— Casino Features this Season : 

Theater (special attractions). Music, 
Restaurant, Shuffle Boards, Dancing;-, 
Croquet, Bowling-, Pool, Tennis, Bil- 
liards. Swimming Bool 150 feet 
long, 70 feet wide; Plunge Baths, Mot and Cold Tub Baths, Shower Baths, Electric Baths, Sulpluir 
Baths; Gymnasium; Special Massage Treatment ; Alcohol, Cologne and Salt " Rubs"; I'edicure and 
Manicure Attendants. 

NOTE. — The Aitesian Water used in these baths is from a special well 1,400 feet deep, flowing lo.coo.ooo gallons daily, 
bored for the Casino, and is strong in salt, lime, magnesia, sulphur, iron, and such medicinal qualities highly recom- 
me.ided for their remedial virtues. A. M. TAVl.UR, St PERINTE.NDIl.NT. 






SWIMMING POOL— MI.\MI CASINO. 



CHUTE — .MI.^.MI C.\SINO. 



PALM BEACH> 

CASINO— \Villi its I)ancc and Entertainment Malls. 

PAVILION.— Salt and l'>esh Water Baths ; Salt Water Swimming Pool. 200 feet by 70 feet. Sea 
Bathing during the Entire Winter. Bicycles; Cun Club; Fishing. 

ERNEST ALLEX, Srri:RiNTf..M)r,NT. 



MIAMI. 

CASINO.— Hot and Cold Salt Water Baths, Swimming Pool; Bicycle Riding .\cademy; (\ux\ Club; 
Pishino". E. A WATSON, Sl pkrintendent. 



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Battle Creek Sanitarium 



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HEALTH FOODS 



TnElineof licalth foiuls in;imif:icturecl 
by tlie Sanitarium fiealtb Toed Co. is so 
well and favorably known, that little 
needs to be said as to their quality and 
genuineness. 

The demand for these foods originated 
at the Battle Creek Sanitarium, itself a 
pioneer in reforms, where was felt the 
necessity of providing suitalile dietetic 
preparations of a special character. 

The standard raised at the inception of 
the enterprise has been maintained and 
elevated by scrupulous attention to de- 
tails and the utilization of the une(iualed 
facilities afforded by tlie extensive lab- 
oratories of tlie Sanitarium; hence, all 
foods produced Ijy lliis ci)mp;my can be 
relied up<in as being STRICTLY PURE, and 
Hade with Special Reference to Healthful 
Properties, ratiier tlnin to command a 
sale. Prominent among the ditt'erent 
foods may be mentioned — 



eranola. 



Highly nutritious and toothsome. The 
process of preparation is such that every 
element of an irritating character is elimi- 
nated. Thoroughly cooked and ready for 
use. One pound more than equals tliree 
pounds of best Ix'cf in nutrient value. 

6rano$e, 

Anew cereal food, thoroughly sterilized. 
Its use clears the tongue and stomach of 
germs. Cures constipation, biliousness, 
sick-headache, and indigestion. A capi- 
tal food for sedentary people. Good for 
everybody, both sick and well. 

6rano$e is the invention of a physician of 
miiiiy years' e\-^)erience. 

Granola received higliest award at the 
(Olmiibiaii and Atlanta Expositions, and 
6raiiO$e a special gold medal at the latter. 

For circular describing complete line of 
healtli foods address 



Battle €reek Sanitarium l>ealtb food €o., 

Battle greek, lUicbigait. 

ngents for England: 

Condon Tood Co., 451 l^olloway Koad, Condon, England. 



55= 



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J\ Delicious and lUbolesome Sub- 
stitute for Coffee. 

CARAMEL-CEREAL has 

been used by the Greatest 
Sanita- 



rium in 
the World 
for more than twenty years. 

Send two two-cent stamps 
for sample package, if your 
grocer does not keep it. 

B niornind, noon, and evenind Drink. 



MANUFACTURED BY THE 



BATTLE CREEK, MICH. 



£be (yorid and 0ood |)ealtb, 

FOR ONE DOLLAR. 



j*) OOD HEALTH is one of the oldest magazines devoted 
VWcN *° sanitary reform in the United States. It deals with 
^^sl^ all questions pertaining to health in a practical manner 
and untechnical style, thus bringing the most 

information relative to these subjects within the reach of all. 

The publishers make this unprecedented offer : To furnish a 
brass-bound wall map, printed in colors by Rand, Mc Nally & Co., 
and one yea/s subscription to GOOD HEALTH magazine for 
only One Dollar. Send for sample copy. Address, 



Good fiealtb. 



Bank ereek. micb. 



E>^^ A Convenience for Travelers. J- J- ^ ^ 

THE S TANDA RD GUIDE 
INFORMATION BUREAU 



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in the Round Tower of Hotel Cordova, 
ST. AUGUSTINE, FLA. 

Tlic Standard (luidc Information Bu- 
reau is maintained 1)\ the " Standard 
(iuidc to the Florida I'^ast Coast." It is 
eondueted solely for the benefit of trav- 
elers, who are eorchalK" inxited to a\ail 
themsehes of its ser\iees, w hieh are ren- 
dered without an\- ehar^e \\ hatexer. No' 
fees are aslsed or in an\' instance accepted. 
Here vou wiU hnd printed matter de- 
scriptixe of all southern resorts and 
transportation lines, and of man\' north- 
ern summer resorts and sanitariums. 
The lU'W time-schedules and folders 
of the railwax- and steamship lines are 
reeeixed here as soon as issued. Sleep- 
in<;-car and steamshij) berths, and state- 
rooms and hotel rooms. ma\- here be en- 
o-ao-ed. Tickets are sold and staterooms 
reserxed for the Ocklawaha Rix'er trip. 

You are invited to register your name in the Infor- 
mation Bureau's TOURISTS' REGISTER, by means 
of which friends may be apprised of your address and 
movements while in Florida, j* j* ^ .^ ^ «?*■ 



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To CHARLESTON, S. C, 

and JACKSONVILLE, FLORIDA, 

WITHOUT CHANGE. 



Sailings Tri-Weekly at 3 P. M. from Pier 29 East River, New York. 



FLORIDA 



MIDWINTER 
SUN BATHS. 



STEAriERS ARRIVE JACKSONVILLE IN flORNINQ, 

connecting with outgoing trains, and Clyde's St. John's River Line, for 
Palatka, Sanford and all intermediate landings on the beautiful St. John's. 

CLYDE LINERS COHANCHE, IROQUOIS, 
ALGONQUIN AND SEMINOLE 

are the smoothest sailing passenger ships to the South. 

STOP=OVER ALLOWED AT CHARLESTON ON 
THROUGH TICKETS. 

Low Rates to Charleston, Savannah, Atlanta, Jacksonville and 

ALL POINTS SOUTH. 

Tickets include meals and stateroom berth, thus making the cost about 

40 PER CENT. LESS THAN ALL RAIL. 

CUISINE UNEXCELLED. 
SUPERB PASSENGER ACCOMMODATIONS. 



Schedule, rates and illustrated booklet free upon application to Passenger Department. 

^ W. H. HENDERSON, Q. E. P. A., A. P. LANE, N. E. A., 

^ 5 Bowling (Ireen, New York. 20i Washington Street, Boston. 

f< W. H. WARBURTON, Q. T. P. A., THEO. Q. EGER, Traffic Hanager, 

^ 5 Bowling Green, New York. 5 15owling C.reen, New York. 

p Wn. p. CLYDE & CO., General Agents, 

^ 5 Bowling (Ireen, New York; 12 South Delaware Avenue, Philadelphia. 

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Circulars at Standard Guide Information Bureau, Hotel Cordova Round Tower, St. Augustine. 



Ready Reference Guide. 



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READY REFERENCE GUIDE. 

For Map of St. Augustine see page vi. 
For East Coast Map see page 75, also large folded Map. 

ST. AUGUSTINE is a well-equipped niociern city. It has asphalt pavements, gas and 
electric lij^jlits, artesian water system, fire department, well-stocked markets and stores, 
elegant churches, an increasing number of residences, and palatial hotels which are 
famous the world over and on whose registers are written the names of more than 50,000 
guests every winter and spring. It is tlie fashionable winter resort of the United States. 
Visitors find every convenience and luxury. The town is renowned for its healthfulness; 
the climate is equable and has given lease of life to thousands who have come hither 
from the North and West. 

SITUATED on a narrow strip of land running north and south, the town has in front (on 
the east) the Matanzas River or hay, and on the west the St. Sebastian River. Across 
the bay is Anastasia Island; ;ind Ih-nihuI th.it — two niilrs distant — the ocean. 



CHOICE TOURIST ROUTES 

FROM FLORIDA 



NORTH 



EAST. 



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ATLANTA, 
SOUTHERN PINES, 
RALEIGH, 
OLD POINT 
COMFORT, 
RICHMOND 

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WASHINGTON. 



STOI'-OVHR ALI.OWF.D AT 

Southern Pines, N. C. 

THE FAMOUS WINTER HEALTH RESORT. 

Address 
B. A. NEWLAND, General Agent Passenger Dept., 6 Kimball House, Atlanta, Qa. 

E. ST. JOHN, Vice.Pres. and Gen. Hanaj^er. H. W. B. GLOVHR, Traffic Hanager. 

T. J. ANDERSON, (ieneral Passenger Agent, Portsmouth, \ a. 



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Ready Reference Guide — Continued. 



RAILW^AYS. All trains leave from the Union Depot on Malaga street. 

MAILS. The post-office is on St. George street, facing the Plaza. General delivery hours, 

8 A. M. to 6 P. M. Mail time to New York, thirty hours ; to Chicago, forty hours. 
TELEGRAPH OFFICES. Alcazar, Hotel Ponce de Leon and Hotel San Marco. 
EXPRESS. Southern Express Co.; office, Nos. 31 and 33 Alcazar, Cordova street. 
BANK. First National Bank, north side of plaza. Hours, 9 A. M. to 2 P. M. 
CHURCHES. Episcopalian — Trinity Church, facing Plaza. Methodist — Grace Church, 

Cordova and Carrere strc-ets. Presbyterian — Memorial Church, Valencia street. 

Roman Catholic — Church facing Plaza on the north. Baptist^ Carrere street. 
PUBLIC LIBRARY. St. George street, in post-ofitice building. 
STUDIOS. A'alencia street, in the grounds of the Hotel Ponce de Leon. 
MUSEUMS. ] ir. ^'edder's Florida Museum (on Marine, corner Treasury street) is very 

well worth visiting ; its extensive collections of land and marine life are of decided 

merit and will repay the attention of those who are interested in natural history. There 

is abundant entertainment here for an hour or a forenoon. 

POINTS OF INTEREST. See map, page vi. 

FORT MARION is open to the public through the day. See page 40. 
THE CITY GATEWAY is at the head of St. George street. See page 19. 
THE PLAZA, iir jiark, is in the center of the town. See page 21. 

THE SLAVE MARKET is a fiction. The old market house on the Plaza, com- 
monly called The Slave Market, never was one. See page 21. 



KIMBALL HOUSE, Atlanta, Ga. 



GEO. W. SCOVILLE, MANAciik. 



JO.S. THOMPSON, Proprietor. 



At the door of the main entrance of the hotel radiates the electric railway system of the city of Atlanta, 
carrying passengers to all parts of the city. Within a hundred feet of the front door is the main Union Depot, 
where arrive and depart all Atlanta trains. The porters of the Kimball House meet all trains and transfer 
all baggagt, checked or otherwise, to and from the hotel without charge. 




American and 
European Plans. 

Service and 

Cuisine in both 

the Dining Room 

and Restaurant 

of the 
Highest Order. 

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One Hundred 

Rooms 

with Private 

Bath. 

Two Passenger 

Elevators. 

All Railroads 

entering Atlanta 

have Offices in 

the Hotel. 



Rates 



American Plan, = = $2.50 to $5.00 per Day. Restaurant Open 

European Plan, = = $1.00 to $3.50 per Day. from 6 A. H. to 

" European Plan, double rooms, $2.00 to $6.00 per Day. Midnight. 

Circulars of the Kimball House also at the Standard Guide Information Bureau, St. Augustine. 



Ready Reference Guide— Continued. v 

THE OLDEST HOUSE. No uhl- knows whicli isthtr uliicsi luHisc in St. .Vugustine. 
THE SEA-WALL was built by tlie ''nitcd States Government in 1835-42. See page 21. 
THE ST. FRANCIS BARRACKS are at llic soiitii end of the Sea-Wall. .See 

pa-c -^2. 
HARBOR AND BEACHES. Sniall steam craft ply i)etween wharves and beaches 

and other points, and may be chartered for excursions. A bridge crosses the Matanzas 

Hay to Anastasia Island. 

HISTORICAL. 

PONCE DE LEON discovered I'lorid.i in 15 1-'. No permanent settlement was estab- 
iislu-d luitil 565, when I'edro Menendez founded St -Augustine, the oldest town in 
North .Vmerica. From the massacre of tiie French Huguenots by Menendez at 
Matanzas to the close of the .Seminole War in 1S42, St. .\ugustine's three centuries have 
been crowded with stirring incident antl eventful change The town remained in the 
possession of the Spaniards until 1763, when I'lorida was ceded to Great Hritain; in 1783 
England ceded Horida back to Spain, and the United .States came into possession in 
1821. The massacre of the Huguenots by Menendez, the sacking of St. .\ugustine by 
Drake, the pillaging b\ the ISoucaniers, the sieges by the British under .Moore and Ogle- 
thorpe, the vicissitudes dining the Revolutionary War, the coming of the Minorcan 
refugees, the Seminole War, and other incidents are referred to in subsequent pages, 
while the story of the town's three centuries is told in " ( )ld St. Augustine"— a helpful 
little book, which is to be seen in its coiiuina binding at all the stores. 



CONSOLIDATED OCKLAWAHA RIVER LINES, 




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LUCAS NEW LINE. 




Plying tvtwt-en P.ilatk.i .\nd the tamoub Silver Springs, 



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HUMKEE leave P.-il.Ttl<a at 12. ;5 P. M , or on arrival of trains from Jack.sonville and St. .Augustine, arriving' at SILVER 
SI'RIXCS the following morning, conncctinc with trains for Ocala, Tampa and Jacksonville. Keturnine: Steamers 
lo.ivo Silver Sprinus at noon on arrival of trains Irom Ocala and I'ampa, givinn a D.WLIGHT SAIL DOWN THE 
SI1,\KK Sl'RINC'.S and the OCKLAWAHA RIVER, arriving at Palatka in the early morning. For further details 
tickets, etc., apply to all railroad ticket offices and agents, or address J. E. LUCAS and R. H. THOMPSON General 
Managers, Palatka, Kla. ' 

Information of the Ocklawaha River Lines at the Standard Guide Information Bureau, St. Augustine. 



Easf Coast Hotrls 




For details of the East Coast Hotels see pi'ge before fiontispiece, and page facing back cover 



East Coast Hotels. 





\ PALH BEACH: 

ROYAL POINCIANA, 
PALM BEACH INN. 

Ml AH I (BI5CAVNE BAY): 
ROYAL PALM, 
HOTEL BISCAYNE. 

KEY WEST: 

HOTEL KEY WEST. 




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Information of the East Coast Hotels at the Standard Guide Information Bureau, St. Augustine. 



East Coast Hotels. 

I The Florida East Coast Hotels, | 

r^ Reached only via the Florida East Coast Railway, Jacksonville to Miami ; >^ 
^ the Miami and Key West Steamship Line, Miami to Key West ; the 2^ 
^ Florida-Bahamas Steamship Line, Miami to Nassau, Bahama Islands. 

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^ KEY WEST. Hotel Key West. 

V^ Open the year round. $4.00 and u] 

W NA<s'=;ATT Riihiimji RljiTids. Roarh^rl hv M^ 



LEON H. CILLEV Manager. 



Open the year round. $4.00 and upward. Readied by Mail Steamship from Miami. 



S^ NASSAU, Bahama Islands. Reached by Mail Steamship from Miami. ^ 

^ MIAMI. Hotel Royal Palm. H. W. MERRILL. Manag er. ^ 

^ Hotel BiSCayne. H E. BEMIS. ^^anager■ ^ 

yij $3 00 and upward. ^W 

^ Casino* EDWARD a. WATSON, Supe ri ntende nt. t§^ 

VJ' Hot and Cold Salt-water Baths, Salt-water Swimming Pool. Cf5^ 

^ PALM BEACH. Palm Beach Inn. By-the-Sea. FRE D STERR V. Manager. ^ 

^ Hotel Royal Poinciana. FRED STERRY. Manager. ^ 

S^^ Casino ERNEST ALLEN, superintend ent. ^ 

/f Hot and Cold Salt-water Baths, Salt-water Swimming Pool, Surf Bathing. TV* 

'4 rn^lvrnNn Hotel OrmOnd an person & PRICE. Managers. J^ 

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ORMOND. 



^ ST. AUGUSTINE. J-Jotel AlcaZar. JQSEPH p. greaves, Manager 

^i Hotel Ponce de Leon. RQBERTMURRAY. Manager. 

^ Hotel Cordova. 

\^M Open during February and Maich. Rooms, Suites or Apartments. 

■^ Casino. a. M. TA YLOR. superintend ent. ^ 

^.4 Swimming Pool, Russian and Turkish Baths ; Bicycle Riding Academy. ^^ 



/J Send to the General Offices, St. Augustine, for .'souvenir Folders of the East Coast. V^ 

m C. B. KNOTT. § 

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m C. B. KNOTT, 

f»^ General Superintendent Florida East Coast Hotel System. 

^^ M tf, Off ^ 2 P^*"^ ^^^'^' ^^^ YORK; 175 Devonshire St., BOSTON; 

^ INofthem Uthces: , j^j ^ Chestnut St., PHILA.; 377 Main St., BUFFALO, N. Y. 

^*4 INTERESTINO BOOKS regarding the Eas* Coast of Florida Where Tickets may be had, 

^^ for sale at all Florida East Coast Hotel System News Stands: / Steamship and Sleeping Car 

^yf "In Biscayne Bay, b,' Caroline \Vashburn Rockwcod : > „ ^. . j .1. 

^ "East Florida Romances," by Caroline Washburn Rock- \ Reservations made, and the 

' ■f wood, "Hunting and Fishing in Florida," by C. B.Corey. S Trar.sfer of Baggage ordered. 

Circulars at Standard Guide Information Bureau, Hotel Cordova Round Tower. St. Augustine. 



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HISTORIC ST. AUGUSTINE TO PICTURESQUE NASSAU 




''■Ifs all in the Standard Guided 



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NEW 

FLORIDA 

SHORT 

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FLORIDA- CENTRALAND 
PENINSULAR RAILROAD 



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SHORTEST LINE 

NEW YORK TO JACKSONVILLE AND SL AUGUSTINE. 

THE NEW YORK AND FLORIDA LIMITED TRAIN, 

Employed in this service is one of the most elegant in the country, haying compartment cars, Pullman 
sleepers, dining and observation cars. There are between New Vork and Florida bv this Ime 
two other trains daily. 

THE CINCINNATI AND FLORIDA LIMITED 

Is an elegant vestibuled train whicii makes the run between Cincinnati and Jacksonville in 
about 24 hours. 

THE CELEBRATED ASHEVILLE ROUTE, 

Also Holly Sprinc.s Route from St. Louis and Kansas City. All our Western Routes 
connect with Chicago. Only through sleeper route between New Orleans and Jacksonville. 



J. L. ADA.MS, General Eastern Agent, 
353 Broadway, New York. 



W. B. PENNINGTON, General Western Agent, 
417 Walnut Street, Cincinnati, O. 



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H. BURKS, T. P. A., J. R. DUVAL, Agent, H. F. DAVIS, Agent, 

Woodward and Jefferson Aves., Detroit 231 E. German St., Baltimore. Commercial Hldg., St. Louis, Mo. 

WALTER G. COLEMAN, Gene:!AL Traveling Agent. 

A. O. MAC DONELL, General Passenger Agent, Jacksonville, Florida. 



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The climate of the East Coast of Florida 
is nearer perfection than any other one 
thing in the world. J^ jt jt jt jt jt, 




of beautiful book. "East Coast of Florida," best map of 
jiar Florida, and other information, address 

PARROTT, J. p. BECKVVITH, J. D. RAHNER. 

Vice-President. Traffic Alanager. A. O p' A 

, , , 5T. AUGUSTINE, FLA. 

In.orm.t.on aU„ ,,t Standard Guide Information Hureau. Hotel Cordova Rotund Tower, St. Augustine. 



COAST UNE 



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BRUNSWICK . 
TH0MA5VILLE. 
PEN5AC0LA. 
MONTGOMERY 
WINTER PARK. 
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RICHMOND. 

WILMINGTON. 

CHARLESTON. 

COLUMBIA, 

AIKEN, 

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ATLANTA. 



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JACKSONVILLE. 

STAUQUSTINE. 

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NEW YORK 



Circulars at the. Standard Guide Information Bureau. St. Augustine. 



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